1. ... here; and writes with the more Assurance of Success, as an Editor may be allowed to judge with more Impartiality than is often to be found in an Author.
2. But Difficulties having arisen from different Opinions, some applauding the very Things that others found Fault with, we have found it necessary to insert the Praises in the following Letters, with the critical Remarks; because the Writer has so kindly mix’d them, that they cannot be disjoin’d (however earnestly the Author of the Piece desire’d it) without obscuring, and indeed defacing, all the Spirit of the Reasoning.
3. The following Objections to some Passages in Pamela were made by an anonymous Gentleman, in a Letter from the Country.
4. The ingenious Writer of the two preceding Letters, answers these good natured Objections, as follows:
5. Fourth: “least weigh’d”; fifth: “least considered.”
6. ...it seems plain to me, that this Gentleman, however laudable his Intention may be on the whole, discerns not an Elegance,...
7. In the Occasions this Gentleman, in his Postscript, is pleas’d to discover for Jokes, I either find not, that he has any Signification at all, or, causelessly, as I think, apprehends that such coarse-tasted Allusions to loose low-life Idioms, may be made, that not to understand what is meant by
them, is both the cleanliest, and prudentest Way of confuting them.
8. ...in the Mind of the Reader, an Honesty so sincere and unguarded.
9. Deleted, fifth edition; replaced in eighth with: “In a Third Letter the same benevolent Gentleman writes, as follows:”.