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THE PATRIOT.
dulous with fictitious miſchiefs, overbearing the weak by audacity of falſehood, by appealing to the judgment of ignorance, and flattering the vanity of meanneſs, by ſlandering honeſty and inſulting dignity, have gathered round them whatever the kingdom can ſupply of baſe, and groſs, and profligate; and raiſed by merit to this bad eminence, arrogate to themſelves the name of Patriots.
