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PC.767.074
13-20 Apr 1767:502 (1/13)
Designing men have often secret purposes to serve, by
assiduously circulating the lie of the day, or even of the
hour, for imposing on the weak and credulous, who take up
opinions without knowledge or judgement, yet fancy they have
both. . . [17 lines: latest abuse concerns Lord Chatham.]
These, and abundance of such like causes, are assigned
for his continuance at Bath; and they operate on weak minds
like the prodigies, with a relation of which, and their
effects on the people, Shakespeare makes Hubert to terrify
the mind of King John. . .
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