Wesley Corpus

And then she was illud quod dicere nolo 't One would think that even the ignobile vulgus, “the beasts of the people,” the lowest, basest herd who wore the human form, would be ashamed of either advancing or crediting so senseless, shame less a tale. Indeed I can hardly think it is credited by one in an hundred even of those who foul their mouths with repeating it. Let it die and be forgotten | Let it not be remembered that ever any Englishman took so dirty a slander into his mouth. * This was wrote before the Princess Dowager went abroad. + What I am reluctant to express.-EDIT. “However, become what will of his mother, let him put away his bad Ministers.” Suppose they really are bad, do you know where he can find better? Whore can he find twenty men, we will not say of Christian but of Roman integrity? Point them out, -men of sound judgment, of clear appre hension, of universal benevolence, lovers of mankind, lovers of their country, lovers of their King; men attached to no. party, but simply pursuing the general good of the nation; not haughty or overbearing, not addicted to passion, not of a revengeful temper; superior to covetousness on the one hand, free from profuseness on the other. I say, show me the men, only this small number; or rather, show them to His Majesty. Let clear and satisfactory proof be given that this is their character; and if these worthy men are not employed in the place of the unworthy ones, you will then have some reason to stretch your throat against evil Ministers. “But if the matter were wholly left to him, would not Lord immediately employ twenty such?” That may bear some doubt. It is not certain that he would; perhaps he knows not where to find them. And it is not certain to a demonstration, that he would employ them if he did. It is not altogether clear, that he is such himself, that he perfectly answers this character. Is he free from pride; from anything haughty in his temper, or overbearing in his behaviour? Is he neither passionate nor revengeful? Is it indisputably plain, that he is equally clear of covetousness on the one hand, and profuseness on the other? Is he steady and uniform in his conduct; always one thing?