the angry Adjectives, he
prefers to that sweet one) wou'd have carried Marks of her Rage, not
Affliction--whereas _naughty_ contains, in One single significant
Petulance, [5th: "a Variety of"] {twenty thousand} inexpressible
Delicacies!---It insinuates, at once, all the beautiful Struggle,
between her Contempt of his Purpose, and tender Regard for his
Person; her Gratitude to Himself and his Family; her Recollection of
his superior Condition.--There is in the elegant Choice of this
half-kind, half-peevish, _Word_, a never-enough to be prais'd
speaking Picture of the Conflict betwixt her Disdain, and her
Reverence! [_del._ 4th] {See, Sir, the Reason I had, for
apprehending some Danger that the refin'd Generosity in many of the
most charming of the Sentiments wou'd be _lost_, upon the too coarse
Conception of some, for whose Use the Author intended them.}

It is the same Case again, in _foolish Thing that I am!_ which this
nice, [_del._ 4th] {un-nice,} Gentleman wou'd advise you to change,
into _foolish that I am!_ He does not seem to have tasted the pretty
Contempt of Herself, the submissive _Diminutive_, so distant from
Vanity, yet allayed by the gentle Reluctance in Self-condemnation
[_del._ 4th] {;---and the other fine Touches of Nature: which wou'd
All have been lost, in the grave, sober Sound of his _Dutch
Emendation_.}

[_del._ 4th]

{As to his Paragraph in _Postscript_, I shall say the less of it,
because the Gentleman's own good Sense seems to confess, by the
Place he has chosen to rank it in, that it ought to be turn'd out of
Doors, as too _dirty_ for the rest of his Letter.----} [4th,
change 7.] In the Occasions {he} is pleas'd to discover for _Jokes_,
I either find not, that he has any Signification at all, or {such
vulgar,} coarse-tasted Allusions to loose low-life Idioms, [_ins._]
that _not_ to understand what {he means,} is both the cleanliest,
and prudentest Way of confuting {him}.

And now, Sir, you will easily gather how far I am from thinking it
needful to change any thing in _Pamela_. I would not scratch such a
beautiful Face, for the _Indies_!

[_del._ 8th]

{You can hardly imagine how it charms me to hear of a Second Edition
already! but the News of still new upon new ones, will be found no
Subject of Wonder. As 'tis sure, that no Family is without Sisters,
or Brothers, or Daughters, or Sons, who can _read_; or wan