If this Party-Spirit has so ill an Effect on our Morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our Judgments. We often hear a poor insipid Paper or Pamphlet cried up, and sometimes a noble Piece depreciated, by those who are of a different Principle from the Author. One who is actuated by this Spirit is almost under an Incapacity of discerning either real Blemishes or Beauties. A Man of Merit in a different Principle,
is
like an Object seen in two different Mediums,
that
appears crooked or broken, however streight and entire it may be in it self.
this Reason there is scarce a Person of any Figure in
England
, who does not go by two
contrary Characters,