strong in Nature, as it stands in the Letters: and I don't see
how Greatness, from Titles, can add Likeness or Power, to the Passions. So
complete a Resemblance of Truth stands in need of no borrow'd Pretensions.
    The Only of this Writer's Objections, which, I think, carries Weight, is
That, which advises some little Contraction of the Prayers, and Appeals to the
Deity. I say little Contraction: for they are nobly and sincerely pathetic. And
I say it only in Fear, lest, if fansied too long, by the fashionably Averse to
the Subject, Minds, which most want the purpos'd Impression, might hazard the
Loss of its Benefit, by passing over those pious Reflections, which, if shorter,
would catch their Attention.
    Certainly, the Gentleman's Objection against the Persecution that Pamela
suffers from Lady Davers, in respect to the Relation this Madwoman bears to the
Brother, is the rashest of All his Advices! And when he thinks she ought rather
to have assum'd the Protection of her Servants, he seems unaware of the probable
Consequence; where there was a Puppy, of Quality, in the Case, who had, even
without Provocation, drawn his Sword on the poor passive PAMELA. Far from
bearing a Thought of exciting an abler Resentment, to the Danger of a Quarrel
with so worthless a Coxcomb, how charmingly natural, apprehensive, and generous,
is her Silence (during the Recital she makes of her Sufferings) with regard to
this masculine Part of the Insult! as also her Prevention of Mrs. Jewkes's less
delicate Bluntness, when she was beginning to complain of the whelp Lord's
Impertinence!
    If I were not afraid of a Pun, I shou'd tell the anonymous Letter-writer,
that he made a too tight-laced Objection, where he quarrels with the spann'd
Waist of Pamela. What, in the Name of Unshapliness! cou'd he find, to complain
of, in a beautiful Girl of Sixteen, who was born out of Germany, and had not,
yet, reach'd ungraspable Roundness! -- These are wonderful Sinkings from
Purpose, where a Man is considering such mental, and passionate Beauties, as
this Gentleman profess'd to be touch'd by!
    But, when he goes on, to object against the Word naughty, (as apply'd in the
Phrase naughty Master) I grow mortified, in Fear of our human Sufficiency,
compar'd with our aptness to blunder! For, here,