Example sake, to have
discharg'd Mrs. Jewkes from her Service.
 
These are the most material Objections that have come to hand, all which are
considered in the following Extracts from some of the most beautiful Letters
that have been written in any Language:
 
»The Gentleman's Advice, not to alter Pamela at all, was both friendly, and
solidly just. I run in, with full Sail, to his Anchorage, that the low Scenes
are no more out of Nature, than the high Passions of proud Lady Davers. Out of
Nature, do they say? 'Tis my Astonishment how Men of Letters can read with such
absent Attention! They are so far from Out of Nature, They are absolute Nature
herself! or, if they must be confess'd her Resemblance; they are such a
Resemblance, at least, as our true Face gives our Face in the Looking-glass.
    I wonder indeed, what it is, that the Gentlemen, who talk of Low Scenes,
wou'd desire should be understood by the Epithet? - Nothing, properly speaking,
is low, that suits well with the Place it is rais'd to. -- The Passions of
Nature are the same, in the Lord, and his Coach-man. All, that makes them seem
different consists in the Degrees, in the Means, and the Air, whereto or
wherewith they indulge 'em. If, in painting Distinctions like these, (which
arise but from the Forms of Men's Manners, drawn from Birth, Education, and
Custom) a Writer falls short of his Characters, there his Scene is a low one,
indeed, whatever high Fortune it flatter'd. But, to imagine that Persons of Rank
are above a Concern for what is thought, felt, or acted, by others, of their
Species, between whom and themselves is no Difference, except such as was owing
to Accident, is to reduce Human Nature to a Lowness, - too low for the Truth of
her Frailty. -
    In Pamela, in particular, we owe All to her Lowness. It is to the docile
Effects of this Lowness of that amiable Girl, in her Birth, her Condition, her
Hopes, and her Vanities, in every thing, in short, but her Virtue, - that her
Readers are indebted, for the moral Reward, of that Virtue. And if we are to
look for the Low among the Rest of the Servants, less lovely tho' they are, than
a Pamela, there is something however, so glowingly painted,