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LETTERS,<br />

LETTER L<br />

TO THE EDITOR <strong>OF</strong> THE STATESMAN, LONDON.<br />

UMVERSITT COLLEGE, OXFORD,<br />

gjjj February llnd, 1811.<br />

The present age has been distinguished<br />

fi-om every former period of EngHsh history,<br />

by the number of those writers who have<br />

sufi"ered the penalties of the law for the<br />

freedom and the spirit with which they<br />

descanted on the morals of the age, and<br />

chastised the vices, or ridiculed the foUies, of<br />

individuals in every rank of life, and among<br />

every description of society. In former<br />

periods of British civilisation, as during the<br />

flourishing ages of Greece and Rome, the

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