Excerpt from The British Critic, Vol. 16: For July, August, September, October, November, and December, 1800




Excerpt from The British Critic, Vol. 16: For July, August, September, October, November, and December, 1800

If, by a conduél of this kind, we have gained, (as we trui't it is no {elf-flattery to hope) the public confidence, we may undoubtedly rely on its conti nuance. In our plan, we {hall invariably perfevere. The great effort is pail; and duties the molt difficult become, by practice, comparatively eafy. For our critical powers, they are of courfe as various as the multiplied aids which we from time to time obtain but our honelly is, we may venture to fay, what the French, Republic is not, one and indzivgyiéle. This pervades the whole; and it mutt be fome fatisfaé'tion to the reader to know, whether he adopt our opinions or not, that they are fairly and truly what we think, and not de vil'ed to ferve a fecret purpofe. From all influence of trade we are, and will be, as free as if no trade of felling books exilled and of any other influence, ex cept the defire of doing good, we are equally un confcious.

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