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Fallacies Ch | | Logical High fliers

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1. Exposition

II. In the next and last place, the course you take is suppose the indirect or vituperative

Of this course the description is extremely /altogether/ simple. The essence of it is consists in an apposite use of the word enemy. When by /As often as/ the adversary on objection is made to abuse in any of these /the above/ shapes, and for the removal of it parliamentary reform or any other measure is spoken of as necessary, you bring to view these several objects of popular respect, and thence of rhetorical panegyric, any or all of them, and inform him and other for his and their information, that he is respectively an enemy to them. Sir, You are an enemy to Government, Sir, you are an enemy to Law /to the Laws./ to the Constitution, to English Institutions to social order, to the Forms by which it is maintained: - and to crown all - (Sir (may infinite and everlasting torment light upon you, as it will /can not/ be sure to do!) you are an Enemy to Religion.

To crown all in addition to the above mentioned articles /pieces. of information, or to save words in lieu of them - all or any of them - you may inform him that he s Jacobin.

See Ch. 1 Fallacy 1. The Hob-goblin-crier's Fallacy.