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 execution against a Thief or Impostor.—The same will hold in the republic of Letters, if the Critics and Judges will let every ignorant pretender to scribling pass on the world.

ATTACKS may be levelled, either against Failures in Genius, or against the Pretensions of writing without one.

A Satyr upon Dulness is a thing that has been used and allowed in All Ages.