ts
Fathers, or Mothers, or Friends, who can _think_; so equally certain
it is, that the Train to a Parcel of Powder does not run on with
more natural Tendency, till it sets the whole Heap in a Blaze, than
that _Pamela_, inchanting from Family to Family, will overspread all
the Hearts of the Kingdom.}

As to the Objection of those warm Friends to _Honesty_, who are for
having _Pamela_ dismiss Mrs. _Jewkes_; there is not One, among All
these benevolent Complainers, who wou'd not discern himself to have
been, _laudably_, in the _wrong_, were he only to be ask'd this
plain Question---Whether a Step, both ill-judg'd, and undutiful, had
not been the Reverse of a PAMELA's Character?---Two or three times
over, Mr. _B----_ had inform'd her, that Mrs. _Jewkes_ and Himself
having been equally involv'd in _One Guilt_, she must forgive, or
condemn, _Both together_. After this, it grew manifest _Duty_ not to
treat her with Marks of Resentment.---And, as here was a visible
Necessity to appear not desirous of turning her away, so, in point
of mere _Moral_ Regard to the bad Woman Herself, it was nobler, to
retain her, with a Prospect of correcting, in Time, her loose Habit
of thinking, than, by casting her off, to the licentious Results of
her Temper, abandon her to Temptations and Danger, which a Virtue
like PAMELA's cou'd not wish her expos'd to.

[_del._ 5th]

{_The Manner in which this admirable Gentleman gives his Opinion of the
Piece, and runs thro' the principal Characters, is so masterly, that the
Readers of _Pamela_ will be charm'd by it, tho' they should suppose,
that his inimitable Benevolence has over-valu'd the Piece itself._}

Inspir'd, without doubt, by some Skill, more than human, and
comprehending in an humble, and seemingly artless, Narration,
a Force that can tear up the Heart-strings, this Author has prepar'd
an enamouring _Philtre_ for the Mind, which will excite such a
_Passion_ for Virtue, as scarce to leave it in the Power of the
_Will_ to neglect her.

_Longinus_, I remember, distinguishing by what Marks we may know the
_Sublime_, says, it is chiefly from an Effect that will follow the
Reading it: a delightfully-adhering Idea, that clings fast to the
Memory; and from which it is difficult for a Man to disengage his
Attention.---If _this_ is a Proof of the _Sublime_, there was never
_Sublimity_ so lastingly felt, as in PAMELA!

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