endeavours which are used by good men to discredit opulent oppression, the hours he has employed on your affairs; and who, in so doing, persuades himself he has not departed from his usual office: they come from one who desires honours, distinctions, and emoluments but little, and who expects them not at all; who has no contempt for fame, and no fear of obloquy; who shuns contention, though he will hazard an opinion: from one who wishes to preserve consistency, but who would preserve consistency by varying his means to secure the unity of his end; and, when the equipoise of the vessel in which he sails may be endangered by overloading it upon one side, is desirous of carrying the small weight of his reasons to that which may preserve its equipoise. THE END. Printed by T. Davison, Whitefriars. |