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VGW(HU.767.031
5 Mar 1767:31 (824)
Elizabeth City, March 1767. It is needless to enumerate the
advantages of a free press, as all Englishmen are sensible
of so great a blessing; but when made by malicious wits, the
vehicle of conveying their productions, which are neither
entertaining nor instructive, is much to be lamented. . . [8
lines] The alteration of an old ballad, for the
entertainment of the publick, must be the production of some
ill natured scribbler: The gentleman and lady alluded to
are known, by the whole circle of their acquaintance, to
possess virtues which will make them happy in each other. I
shall only add two lines of Tully:
Justice consists in doing no injury to man,
Decency in giving them no offence.
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