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Perhaps, however, you will think me scarcely less under the influence of

a similar delusion when I tell you, that I have been somehow or other

drawn also into an association, not indeed so public or potent as that of

the Saints, but equally persevering in the objects for which it has been

formed The drift of the Saints, as far as I can comprehend the matter,

is to procure the advanceuished for

the purity of their lives, and the integrity of their conduct; and in

that way, I presume, they expect to effect the accomplishment of that

blessed epoch, the Millennium, when the Saints are to rule the whole

earth I do not mean to say that this is their decided and determined

object; I only infer, that it is the necessary tendency of their

proceedings; and I say it with all possible respect and sincerity, that,

as a public party, the Saints are not only perhaps the most powerful, but

the party which, at present, best deserves power

The association, however, hich I have happened to become connected,

is of a very different description Their object is, to pass through

life with as

unbecoentlemen, and the character of s as the Saints, the Whigs, or the

Radicals, nor are our speeches delivered with so much vehemence We

even, I think, tacitly exclude oratory In a word, our s seldom

exceed the perfect number of the muses; and our object on these occasions

is not so much to deliberate on plans of prospective benefits to mankind,

as to enjoy the present time for ourselves, under the temperate