upon new ones, will be found no Subject of Wonder. As
'tis sure, that no Family is without Sisters, or Brothers, or Daughters, or
Sons, who can read; or wants Fathers, or Mothers, or Friends, who can think; so
equally certain it is, that the Train to a Parcel of Powder does not run on with
more natural Tendency, till it sets the whole Heap in a Blaze, than that Pamela,
inchanting from Family to Family, will overspread all the Hearts of the Kingdom.
    As to the Objection of those warm Friends to Honesty, who are for having
Pamela dismiss Mrs. Jewkes; there is not One, among All these benevolent
Complainers, who wou'd not discern himself to have been, laudably, in the wrong,
were he only to be ask'd this plain Question - Whether a Step, both ill-judg'd,
and undutiful, had not been the Reverse of a PAMELA'S Character? - Two or three
times over, Mr. B-- had inform'd her, that Mrs. Jewkes and Himself having been
equally involv'd in One Guilt, she must forgive, or condemn, Both together.
After this, it grew manifest Duty not to treat her with Marks of Resentment. -
And, as here was a visible Necessity to appear not desirous of turning her away,
so, in point of mere Moral Regard to the bad Woman Herself, it was nobler, to
retain her, with a Prospect of correcting, in Time, her loose Habit of thinking,
than, by casting her off, to the licentious Results of her Temper, abandon her
to Temptations and Danger, which a Virtue like PAMELA'S cou'd not wish her
expos'd to.«
 
The Manner in which this admirable Gentleman gives his Opinion of the Piece, and
runs thro' the principal Characters, is so masterly, that the Readers of Pamela
will be charm'd by it, tho' they should suppose, that his inimitable Benevolence
has over-valu'd the piece itself.
 
»Inspir'd, without doubt, by some Skill, more than human, and comprehending in
an humble, and seemingly artless, Narration, a Force that can tear up the
Heart-strings, this Author has prepar'd an enamouring Philtre for the Mind,
which will excite such a Passion for Virtue, as scarce to leave it in the Power
of the Will to neglect her.
    Longinus, I remember, distinguishing by what Marks we may know the Sublime,
says, it is