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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson: first number appeared. On Friday the 2nd of April 'MR.
TATLER became speechless.' Its history was not all one
success; for the editor (who applies to himself the words of
Iago, 'I am nothing if I am not critical') overstepped the
bounds of caution, and found himself seriously embroiled with
the powers that were. There appeared in No. XVI. a most
bitter satire upon Sir John Leslie, in which he was compared
to Falstaff, charged with puffing himself, and very prettily
censured for publishing only the first volume of a class-
book, and making all purchasers pay for both. Sir John
Leslie took up the matter angrily, visited Carfrae the
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