may ten, I hope, in such a manner as Fend to the promotion of Piety " If to palliate profligacy and to calum = piate virtue can tend to the promotion of Piety, he has indeed amply succeeded in those Lives. that Was it likewise to promote Piety he conspired with the abandoned Lauder to defame the moral and literary character of Milton; from the imputation of which infamy no hyssop can ever - purge him clean! |