rrow'd Pretensions.

The Only of this Writer's Objections, which, I think, carries
Weight, is That, which advises some little _Contraction_ of the
Prayers, and Appeals to the Deity. I say _little_ Contraction: for
they are nobly and sincerely pathetic. And I say it only in Fear,
lest, if fansied too long, by the fashionably _Averse_ to the
Subject, Minds, which most want the _purpos'd Impression_, might
hazard the _Loss_ of its _Benefit_, by passing over those pious
Reflections, which, if shorter, would catch their Attention.

Certainly, the Gentleman's Objection against the Persecution that
_Pamela_ suffers from lady _Davers_, in respect to the Relation this
Madwoman bears to the _Brother_, is the [4th & 5th, change 5.]
{rashest} of All his Advices! And when he thinks she ought rather to
have assum'd the Protection of her Servants, he seems unaware of the
probable _Consequence_; where there was a Puppy, of Quality, in the
Case, who had, even without Provocation, drawn his Sword on the poor
passive PAMELA. Far from bearing a Thought of exciting an abler
Resentment, to the Danger of a Quarrel with so worthless a Coxcomb,
how charmingly natural, apprehensive, and generous, is her Silence
(during the Recital she makes of her Sufferings) with regard to this
_masculine_ Part of the Insult! as also her Prevention of Mrs.
_Jewkes_'s less delicate Bluntness, when she was beginning to
complain of the whelp Lord's Impertinence!

If I were not afraid of a _Pun_, I shou'd tell the anonymous
Letter-writer, that he made a too _tight-laced_ Objection, where he
quarrels with the spann'd Waist of _Pamela_. What, in the Name of
Unshapeliness! cou'd he find, to complain of, in a beautiful Girl of
Sixteen, who was born _out of Germany_, and had not, yet, reach'd
ungraspable _Roundness_!----These are wonderful Sinkings from
Purpose, where a Man is considering such mental, and passionate
Beauties, as this Gentleman profess'd to be touch'd by!

But, when he goes on, to object against the Word _naughty_, (as
apply'd in the Phrase _naughty Master_) [4th, change 6.] {I grow
mortified, in Fear for our human Sufficiency, compar'd with our
Aptness to blunder! For, here, 'tis plain, this Director of
Another's Discernment is quite blind, Himself, to an Elegance,} one
wou'd have thought it _impossible_ not to be struck by?---Faulty,
wicked, abominable, scandalous, (which are