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 leat Truth in what Mr. Wetern affirmed, epecially as he laid the Scene of thoe Impurities at the Univerity, where Mr. Allworthy had never been. In fact, the good Squire was a little too apt to indulge that Kind of Pleaantry which is generally called Rodomontade; but which may, with as much Propriety, be expreed by a much horted Word; and, perhaps, we too often upply the Ue of this little Monoyllable by others; ince very much of what frequently paes in the World for Wit and Humour, hould, in the trictet Purity of Language, receive that hort Appellation, which, in Conformity to the well-bred Laws of Cutom, I here uppres.

But whatever Detetation Mr. Allworthy had to this or to any other Vice, he was not o blinded by it, but that he could dicern any Virtue in the guilty Peron, as clearly, indeed, as if there had been no Mixture of Vice in the ame Character. While he was angry, therefore, with the Incontinence of Jones, he was no les pleaed with the Honour and Honety of his Self-accuation. He began now to form in his Mind the ame Opinion of this young Fellow which we hope our Reader may have conceived. And in ballancing his Faults with his Per-