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210 anonymous writing, he insists that I have been guilty of a much grosser folly, of incurring the certainty of shame and detection, by writings signed with my name! But this is a small flight for the towering Junius: "He is from thinking meanly of my abilities", though "he is convinced that I want judgment extremely;" and can "really respect Mr. Sawbridge's character," though he declares him to be so poor a creature, as not to "see through the basest design, conducted in the poorest manner!". And this most base design is conducted in the poorest manner by a man, whom he does not