It will furnish a secure ambuscade, behind which the Maroons of literature may take a certain and deadly aim.

The editorial WE has often been fatal to rising genius; though all the world knows that it is only a form of speech, very often employed by a single needy blockhead.

The academic WE would have a far greater and more ruinous influence.

Numbers, while they increase the effect, would diminish the shame, of injustice.
The advantages of an open and those of an anonymous attack would be combined; and the authority of avowal would be united to the security of concealment.

The serpents in Virgil, after they had destroyed Laocoon, found an asylum from the vengeance of the enraged people behind the shield of the statue of Minerva.