[Footnote 15: Barbauld, I, lxxvi.]

[Footnote 16: McKillop, p. 42.]

CHANGES

1. ... _here; and writes with the more Assurance of Success, as an
_Editor_ may be allowed to judge with more Impartiality than is often to
be found in an _Author_._

2. _But Difficulties having arisen from different Opinions, some
applauding the very Things that others found Fault with, we have found
it necessary to insert the _Praises_ in the following Letters, with the
critical Remarks; because the Writer has so kindly mix'd them, that they
cannot be disjoin'd (however earnestly the Author of the Piece desire'd
it) without obscuring, and indeed defacing, all the Spirit of the
Reasoning._

3. _The following Objections to some Passages in Pamela were made by an
anonymous Gentleman, in a Letter from the Country._

4. _The ingenious Writer of the two preceding Letters, answers these
good natured Objections, as follows:_

5. Fourth: "least weigh'd"; fifth: "least considered."

6. ...it seems plain to me, that this Gentleman, however laudable his
Intention may be on the whole, discerns not an Elegance,...

7. In the Occasions this Gentleman, in his Postscript, is pleas'd to
discover for _Jokes_, I either find not, that he has any Signification
at all, or, causelessly, as I think, apprehends that such coarse-tasted
Allusions to loose low-life Idioms, may be made, that _not_ to
understand what is meant by them, is both the cleanliest, and prudentest
Way of confuting them.

8. ...in the Mind of the Reader, an Honesty so sincere and unguarded.

9. Deleted, fifth edition; replaced in eighth with: "_In a Third Letter
the same benevolent Gentleman writes, as follows:_".

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* * * * *

_PAMELA_:

OR,

VIRTUE Rewarded.

In a SERIES of

FAMILIAR LETTERS

FROM A

Beautiful Young DAMSEL,

To her PARENTS.

Now first Published

In order to cultivate the Principles of VIRTUE
and RELIGION in the Minds of the YOUTH of
BOTH SEXES.

A Narrative which has its Foundation in TRUTH
[_del._ 8th] {and NATURE}; and at the same time that it
agreeably entertains, by a Variety of _curious_ and
_affecting_ INCIDENTS, is intirely divested of all those
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