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The ear trieth the words, as the mouth tasteth the meat, Job xxxiv, 3 ; but, certainly, the most ears are perverse and distempered in the taste, as some kind of palates are, and can find sweetness in sour calumny. " " They offend that seek, in any kind, at the expense of the good name and esteem of others, to increase 82 DETRACTION DISPLAYED. their own ; who try, out of others' rums? to make up themselves, and therefore pulf down as much as they can, and are glad to have others to detract from ...the repute of their bre- thren; particularly, any that are in likelihood to surpass and obscure them. " I have alluded to the bad effect of evil speak- ing on those who hear it, and on those who are its objects ; for, in the first place, detract- ing conversation injures the utterers of it, be- cause they are guilty of positive sin them- selves in so speaking : in the second place it injures those who hear it, because it is a snare to them, and leads them by bad example in- to commission of the same sin.
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