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 Giant-killer in a coat of darknes, he may do much michief with little trength. Novelty captivates the uperficial and thoughtles; vehemence delights the dicontented and turbulent. He that contradicts acknowledged truth will always have an audience; he that vilifies etablihed authority will always find abettors.

burt into notice with a blaze of impudence which has rarely glared upon the world before, and drew the rabble after him as a monter makes a how. When he had once provided for his afety by impenetrable ecrecy, he had nothing to combat but truth and jutice, enemies whom he knows to be feeble in the dark. Being then at liberty to indulge himelf in all the immunities of inviibility; out of the reach of danger, he has been bold; out of the reach of hame, he has been confident. As a rhetorician, he has had the art of peruading when he econded deire; as a reaoner, he has convinced thoe who had no doubt