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a mind to own it, he should chuse to do it in the _Third Person_,
rather than the _First_.

Another Reason is; That this Answerer makes him publickly own the
_Memoirs_, which I could never hear he has yet done. Nay farther; He
makes Him defend them in all parts; which I doubt, if he had owned them,
he would not do it any further than the Truth; since for the rest, as
the Publisher of them observes, they are in many places imperfect, and
uncorrect, by having never been reviewed; and so may be justly liable to
some Exceptions of that kind: And the _Gallicisms_ upon which _De
Cros_'s _Advertiser_ says, the _Criticks_ have been so severe, may
easily discover they were not designed for the Publick in that Dress
they have appeared. Now, tho this Pretended Answerer endeavours to
imitate Sir _W. T._ in this Point, as well as in the use of several
other Words which are found in the _Memoirs_, and he imagines a little
particular; yet he has made so great a discovery in several others, that
by consisting of two such different pieces, the whole lies too open to
deceive. For altho such words as _Blunder_, _Hans-en Kelder_, _A man of
such a Kidney_ with some others, may well enough become such a Scribler
as I am, yet they are very unlike that Author's Expressions, and below
his Stile.

Another ground I have to conclude this Answer for a Counterfeit, is for
some Quotations which I shall never suspect such a Writer as Sir _W. T._
would have made use of. As first, that poor Line, _Canes qui latrant_,
&c. which looks like an _English_ Proverb translated into very bald
_Latin_. Then (to mention no more of them) another Quotation as unlike
as the first, from Mr. _Samuel Johnson_, which agrees very little with
that Author's way, who is observed in all he writes, to be very tender
in medling with controverted Points of State and Government.

Besides, This whole Pamphlet, tho it must be confess'd to be ingenious,
and written with a great deal of Wit, yet that very strain of _Witting_
it so much, and running things into Ridicule, makes it look very
different from any thing we have yet seen of Sir _W. T_'s Writings: And
I observe in several places of the _Miscellanea_, this very vein is
taken notice of for a thing of _pernicious Consequence to Learning and
good Manners_; so that if Sir _W. T._ be really possessed of such a
Talent, he keeps it very much to himself, and must be allowed for the
best Disguiser of it in the World, through all h