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Printed for HARRISON and Co. No. 18, Paternofter-Row

DCC LXXX.

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HERE are an hundred faults in this Thing, and an hundred things might be faid to prove them beauties. But it is needlefs. A book may be amufing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a fingle abfurdity. The hero of this piece unites in himself the three greateft characters upon earth; he is a priest, an husbandman, and the father of a family. He is drawn as ready to teach, and ready to obey, as fimple in affluence, and majestic in adverfity. In this age of opulence and refinement whom can such a character please? Such as are fond of high life, will turn with difdain from the fimplicity of his country fire-fide; fuch as mistake ribaldry for humour, will find no wit in his harmless converfation; and fuch as have been taught to deride religion, will laugh at one whose chief stores of comfort are drawn from futurity.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH

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