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214 whose conduct, wherever I could personally appear, has been as direct, and open, and public, as my words; I have not, like him, concealed myself in my chamber, to shoot my arrows out of the window; nor contented myself to view the battle from afar; but publicly mixed in the engagement, and shared the danger. To whom have I, like him, refused my name, upon complaint of injury? What printer have I desired to conceal me? In the infinite variety of business in which I have been concerned, where it is not so easy to be faultless, which of my actions can he arraign? To what danger has any man been exposed, which I have not faced? information, action, imprisonment, or death? What labour have I refused? What expense have I declined? What pleasure have I not renounced?—But Junius, to whom no conduct belongs, "measures the integrity of men by their conduct, not by their professions;" himself, all the while, being nothing but professions, and those too anonymous!. The political ignorance, or wilful falsehood, of this disclaimer, is extreme: His own former letters justify both my conduct and those whom his last letter abuses: for the public measures which Junius has been all along defending,