"AND BE THESE JUGGLING FIENDS NO MORE BELIEV'D, "THAT PALTER WITH US IN A DOUBLE SENSE; THAT KEEP THE WORD OF PROMISE TO OUR IAR, " AND BREAK IT TO OUR HOPE." SHAKESPEAR. THE SECOND EDITION. London: PRINTED FOR JOHN HATCHARD, BOOKSELLER TO 1800 16-27-53 MFP 12246 PREFACE. AMONG the various caufes which may be affigned for the extraordinary corruption of the human race, one of the most powerful has, perhaps, in all ages, been the perverfion of language. Did Vice ftalk abroad unveiled in her native deformity, few, whofe minds were not under the immediate influence of fome impetuous paffion, would have fufficient boldness to meet the terrors of her aspect; few could refolve to incur the infamy which would inevitably cover those who appeared in her train. To fuch, therefore, as would feize the fatal pleafures which the boafts her power to offer, no expedient can occur by which they may more effectually evade the reproaches of their own confciences, and the juft cenfure of the world, than to invent a new vocabulary; to call evil good, and good evil; and when, by the use of these false terms, |