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THE

EXAMINER.

VOL. III.

B

THE

EXAMINE R*.

NUMBER XIII.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1710.

longa est injuria, longæ
Ambages; sed summa sequar fastigia rerum.

The tale is intricate, perplex'd, and long:
Hear then, in short, the story of her wrong.

IT is a practice I have generally followed, to con

verse in equal freedom with the deserving men of both parties; and it was never without some cantempt, that I have observed persons wholly out of employment, affect to do otherwise. I doubted, whether any man could owe so much to the side he was of, although he were retained by it; but without some great point of interest, either in possession or prospect, I thought it was the mark of a low and narrow spirit.

It is hard that for some weeks past, I have been forced, in my own defence, to follow a proceeding that I have so much condemned in others. But several of my acquaintance among the declining party, are grown so insufferably peevish and sple

*For a particular history of the dean's share in this periodica paper see the eighteenth volume of this collection. B 2

netic,

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