prove and chuſe it, adding a Grace, or Credit, or Authority, to his Diſcourſe.
But what Gracefulneſs can there be in a Language, which none uſe but the wild, unthinking, profligate Part of Mankind; and which gives great Offence and Uneaſineſs to every ſober and good Man; and I may add, a Language which is no where ſo common as among the meaner Sort, and in the moſt unpoliſhed Converſation.
And as to the gaining Credit or Belief to what he ſays; it were well if he would at leaſt refrain from Oaths, till his Credit is called in Queſtion: But where Swearing is grown into a Habit, it breaks out equally upon any Occaſion, or no Occaſion: and in Caſes where there is moſt Occaſion; that is, when they cannot eaſily make themſelves believed, it ſtands them in no Stead; becauſe none will believe him the more for Swearing, who is known to have loſt all Reverence for an Oath. The bare Word of a ſober ſerious Man has far more Weight than a thouſand Oaths of the common Swearer.
