The nobility having been seized with the general discontent, unwarily threw themselves, _&c._ [or], The nobility who had been seized, _&c._ unwarily threw themselves, _&c._ So much upon conjunction and disjunction in general. I proceed to apply the rule to comparisons in particular. Where a resemblance betwixt two objects is described, the writer ought to study a resemblance betwixt the two members that express these objects. For it makes the resemblance the more entire to find it extended even to the words. To illustrate this rule, I shall give various examples of deviations from it. I begin with the words that express the resemblance. I have observed of late, the style of some great _ministers_ very much to exceed that of any other _productions_. _Letter to the Lord High Treasurer. Swift._ This, instead of studying the resemblance of words in a period that expresses a comparison, is going out of one’s road to avoid it. Instead of _productions_ which resemble not ministers great or small, the proper word is _writers_ or _authors_. If men of eminence are exposed to censure on the one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve. _Spectator._ Here the subject plainly demands uniformity in expression instead of variety; and therefore it is submitted whether the period would not do better in the following manner: If men of eminence be exposed to censure on the one hand, they are as much exposed to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due, they likewise receive praises which are not due. I cannot but fancy, however, that this imitation, which passes so currently with _other judgements_, must at some time or other have stuck a little with your _Lordship_[86]. [Better thus:] I cannot but fancy, however, that this imitation, which passes so currently with others, must at some time or other have stuck a little with your Lordship. * * * * * A glutton or mere sensualist is as ridiculous as the other two characters. _Shaftesbury, vol. 1. p. 129._ They wisely prefer _the generous efforts of good-will and affection_, to the reluctant compliances _of such as_ obey by force. _Remarks on the history of England. Letter 5. Bolingbroke._ Titus Livius, concerning the people of Enna demanding the keys from the Roman garrison, makes the governor say, Quas simul tradiderimus, Carthaginiensium extemplo Enna erit, fœdiusque hic trucidabimir, quam Murgantiæ præsidium interfectum est. _L. 24. § 38._ Quintus Curtius, speaking of Porus mounted on an elephant, and leading his army to battle: