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have nothing to add to what they have said. I
confess this has often given me seme trouble, in
that which I have already writ. My Journal fur-
nished me with an Infinity of Remarks which
I had dearly colleAed, and which I would have .
gladly made use of, if the fear of repeating what
others had already writ had not prevented
me.
I stiall also tell you another thing seeing occasi-
on offers it, that sometimes has no less troubled
me. There are two sorts of certain Renowned
Persons, and DOCTORS, with-
out naming any body, whose Portraitures I should
have been glad to have made a little more inge-
nuously than they are usually done. For I must
freely confess, rhat as I take a particular delight
in praising those who deservetobe praised; so I
feel I don’t know what that oppresfeth me, when
1 hear People who are very little praise worthy,
but rather contemptible, flattered and boasted of:
And it would be,without doubt, a good and useful
thing, to describe the true CharaAers both of the
one and the other without any disguise : But that
troublesom sort of Policy, that we must so fre-
quently make use of in this World, and which
so often forces silence upon Truth, will oblige
me as it has already done, to diss'emble many
things that my just Inclinations have sometimes
prompted me to say; and will force me to com-
municate these secret Memoirs, only to my belt
Friends.
As for the rest, Sir, when I was saying just
how that the Relation of a Journey ought
to contain nothing but a Recital of things that
are agreeable; I would be understood, as if I
wou’d exclude all those Remarks that don’t de-
serve that Name ; for I am very far from be-
lieving that one must too Nicely limit himself
only
confess this has often given me seme trouble, in
that which I have already writ. My Journal fur-
nished me with an Infinity of Remarks which
I had dearly colleAed, and which I would have .
gladly made use of, if the fear of repeating what
others had already writ had not prevented
me.
I stiall also tell you another thing seeing occasi-
on offers it, that sometimes has no less troubled
me. There are two sorts of certain Renowned
Persons, and DOCTORS, with-
out naming any body, whose Portraitures I should
have been glad to have made a little more inge-
nuously than they are usually done. For I must
freely confess, rhat as I take a particular delight
in praising those who deservetobe praised; so I
feel I don’t know what that oppresfeth me, when
1 hear People who are very little praise worthy,
but rather contemptible, flattered and boasted of:
And it would be,without doubt, a good and useful
thing, to describe the true CharaAers both of the
one and the other without any disguise : But that
troublesom sort of Policy, that we must so fre-
quently make use of in this World, and which
so often forces silence upon Truth, will oblige
me as it has already done, to diss'emble many
things that my just Inclinations have sometimes
prompted me to say; and will force me to com-
municate these secret Memoirs, only to my belt
Friends.
As for the rest, Sir, when I was saying just
how that the Relation of a Journey ought
to contain nothing but a Recital of things that
are agreeable; I would be understood, as if I
wou’d exclude all those Remarks that don’t de-
serve that Name ; for I am very far from be-
lieving that one must too Nicely limit himself
only