r'd_[g], and the joyful Croud
Burst forth in laughing shouts so shrill and loud,
The affrighted vision fled in haste away,
And my glad eyes beheld the chearful day.
[Footnote a: [_His S----r's Fate._]--If the Reader should think I have
strayed beyond the line of propriety in introducing a Family so
_profitably_ employed as this, into the _Temple of Folly_,--I shall beg
leave to refer him to a _sacred Book_ which this Family pretend to read
with great care and attention; wherein he will perceive that the _wisdom
of this world_, with which this Family so much abounds, is accounted
_foolishness_.--Tho', if he should object to _Scripture_ authority, he
will find, in the _laugh_ and _contempt_ of Mankind, the real folly of
those who, in the midst of affluence, by the most bare-fac'd and
indelicate proceedings, obtain and continue to grasp at every means of
_domestic emolument_.]
[Footnote b: [And the _flow L----_.]--I do not allude to this noble
person's capacity,--but to his _great and well-known Indispositions to
this Connection_.]
[Footnote c: [_to break through every golden-rule_.] This woman, as an
example of the good effects of _a prudential_ and _parsimonious_
education, the moment she was let loose, run into the extreme of Folly
and expensive Fashions.--It has been said of one of her sisters, that
she never spoke before her marriage, and was never silent
afterwards.--This is the true art of managing Daughters--To prevent a
discovery of their real dispositions 'till the end of the hypocrisy is
answer'd,--and the _Settlement for Life_ irrevocable.]
[Footnote d: [_And Oaths by which he swore_.] At the last General
Election, it was consider'd as a certain road to success by the
Patriotic Candidates for the Senatorial Dignity, to propose and take
oaths to support certain _wise_ measures, and to endeavour at the Repeal
of certain _dangerous_ Laws. This person was among the outrageous
Partisans of Opposition, who, at that time, look the propos'd oaths with
great noise and clamour in various parts of the Kingdom: But his success
was not then equal to that which he has since found, without any _public
engagements_, beneath the smile of Ministerial favour.--But I do not
mean, indeed I have no right to express myself with severity at this
change of Party;--I will not add _Sentiments_;--for they are in the
secret recesses of his own breast.--Nor shall I endeavour, at present,
to develope the turnings and win
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