The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *15 ] # there is one way to fee this abfardity in an amiable light; for in fuch a light will he appear, if we fuppofe that he puts on the jack-pudding’s coat, with the noble view of exposing and ridicul¬ ing thofe pernicious tenets which have lately been propagated, with a zeal more difficult to be accounted for, than its fuccefs^ That fuch an attempt of expofing any popular error would always prove victorious, is, I think, extremely pro¬ bable. My lord Shaftfbury hath been blamed for faying, c That ridicule is one * of thofe principal lights or natural me- c diums by which things are to be view- * ed, in order to a thorough recogniti¬ on: for that truth, it is fuppofed, may £ bear all lights V Perhaps there may be fome juftice in this cenfure, as truth may by fuch a trial be fubjedted to mif- reprefen tat ion, and become a more eafy a Effay on the freedom of wit and humour, part L fed. I. prey