e, who
estimate persons and things by their real worth, can not suffer our
judgment to be so imposed upon; and unless it is your wish to see him
exposed, it ought to be your endeavor to keep him out of sight. The less
you have to say about him the better. We have done with him, and that
ought to be answer enough. You have been often told so. Strange! that
the answer must be so often repeated. You go a begging with your king as
with a brat, or with some unsalable commodity you are tired of; and
though every body tells you no, no, still you keep hawking him about.
But there is one that will have him in a little time, and as we have no
inclination to disappoint you of a customer, we bid nothing for him."

Many passages of similar severity could be collected. In fact, the two
Letters addressed to Lord Howe are not equaled in force or severity by
the most savage of Junius' productions. I now call attention to other
parallel peculiarities.

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{103}The manner of threatening, commanding, and warning, is, the same:

_Paine._

"I hold up a warning to your senses, if you have
any left.... I call, not with the rancor of an
enemy, but the earnestness of a friend, on the
deluded people of England.... There is not a
nobleman's country seat but may be laid in ashes
by a single person."--Crisis, vi.

_Junius._

"The English nation must be roused and put upon
its guard.... The corruption of the legislative
body on this side, a military force on the other,
and then _farewell_ to England."--Let. 40.

"A change of the ministry in England may probably
bring your measures into question and your head to
the block."--To Lord Howe, Crisis, v.

"Sullen and severe without religion, profligate
without gayety, you live like Charles the Second,
without being an amiable companion, and, for aught
I know, may die as his father did, without the
reputation of a martyr."--Let. 12.

"Go home, sir, and endeavor to save the remains of
your ruined country by a just representation of
the madness or her measures. A few moments well
applied may yet preserve her from political
destruction."--Crisis, v.

"Return, my lord, before it be too late, to that
easy, insipid system