Note 100 — Chapter IV · “ENGLISH BARDS, AND SCOTCH REVIEWERS”

Mathias had asserted that Moore “had neither scrupled nor blushed to depict, and to publish to the world, the arts of systematic seduction, and to thrust upon the nation the most open and unqualified blasphemy against the very code and volume of our religion” (Pursuits of Literature, Preface to Dialogue IV.).