A letter to ******* ***** [William Lewis], M.D. heretofore of ****** ****** [Christ Church] College in the University of O-*-*-*-*-d [Oxford] / [George Wilmot].

  • Wilmot, George.
Date:
1752
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Credit: A letter to ******* ***** [William Lewis], M.D. heretofore of ****** ****** [Christ Church] College in the University of O-*-*-*-*-d [Oxford] / [George Wilmot]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Your Judgment, and thereby give You a fair Caution to avoid them. Fir ft then this Sham-Defender of You feems to betray his real Intentions to hurt You by a Sollicitiide to lead his Readers into a Perfuafion that You are highly injured by the Inquirer, <c who (fays He) has taken Care to colled: the C£ feveral Incidents, which fell out accidentally at cc different Times, and to fling them all toge- £C ther in one View before the Eyes of the Reader, as if they had happened at the fame £C Timed’ [/?. 7.] Now really a clofe Attention to every Article of the Inquiry does not furnifh me with Evidence of this Fad:. But, for Argument’s Sake, I ad¬ mit it to be foj and then I afk whether You are more feverely treated by an Accufer, who char¬ ges You with Enormities, into which Your con- foiled Imprudence hurry’d You at one and the fame Time, or by a pretended Advocate, who allows a Frequency of Criminal Ads, repeated with Deliberation at different Times, each of a manifell: Tendency towards one and the fame op¬ probrious Point in View. Again : One efpeciai Ad of fhocking Inde¬ cency (which I cannot force my Pen to repeat from Yours) took Place (fays Your Defender) not (as is infinuated by the Inquirer) in pri¬ vate, in a College Chamber; but truly it was in the open College, at Noon, in Pub lick, and in the Sight of two Women. \p. 5,]—-Was it fo, good Sir ? The Matter is much mended indeed, and B 2 Your