THE HISTORY OF Sir CHARLES GRANDISON. IN A SERIES of LETTERS Published from the ORIGINALS, By the Editor of PAMELA and CLARISSA. In SEVEN VOLUME S.. VOL. III. LONDON: Printed for S. Richardfon ; And Sold by C, HITCH and L. HAWES, in Pater-nofter Re By J. and J. RIVINGTON, in St. Paul's Church-Yard ; By ANDREW MILLAR, in the Strand; By R. and J. DODSLEY, in Pall-Mall; 24 And by J. LEAK E, at Bath; M.DCC.LIV.21. S Saturday, March 18. ELF, my dear Lucy, is a very wicked thing; a fanctifier, if one would give way to its partialities, of actions, which, in others, we fhould have no doubt to condemn. DELICACY, too, is often a mifleader; an idol, at whofe fhrine we fometimes offer up our Sincerity; but, in that cafe, it fhould be called Indelicacy. Nothing, furely, can be delicate, that is not true, or that gives birth to equivocation: Yet how was I pleafed with Lord and Lady L. and Mifs Grandifon, for endeavouring to pass me off to good Dr. Bartlett in the light I had no title to appear in !-As if my mind, in a certain point, remained to be know VOL. III. B |