Capitolo 24
Pope gave him the reward to which he had promised, but, to the same duration, to
you disable the satirist for the future, it ordered his/her language to be cut
out, and both hands of his to be cut. Aretine is too much minced a
example. Each he/she knows that all the kings of Europe were his
tributary people. No, there is a letter of his existing in that him
ago his/her boasting that he had placed the Sophi of Persia under
contribution.
Although in the various examples that I have drawn here together,
this many great men very differently behaved toward
the intelligence of the age that you/he/she had scolded them, all of them of them
it clearly showed that they was very judicious of their reproaches, and
accordingly that they received them to them as you damn very great. For mine
own part, I would never have trust in a man of what I thought it was able
giving these secret wounds; and it is not able but he/she thinks that he would hurt
the person which reputation that he assaults so, in his/her body or in his
happens, it was able him it does him/it with the same safety. There is indeed
anything very Barbaric and inhuman in the scribblers to the agenda of
satires. A young innocent lady will be exposed for a miserable person
characteristic; a father of a family turned to put in ridiculous for some national
calamity; a wife is been you/he/she troubles all of his/her life for a you/he/she interpreted badly
word or action; no, a good person, a moderate, and a correct man will be
puts out of expression from the representation of those qualities that
you/he/she should make him/it honour; so pernicious a thing is the intelligence when it is not
tempered with virtue and humanity.
I have felt indeed of careless writers, inconsiderate that, without
some malevolence, has sacrificed the reputation of their friends and
knowledge to a certain lightness of the temperament and a foolish ambition of
distinguishing himself/herself/itself from a spirit of joke and satire; as if
honourable is not very more to be a benevolent man that