...exaggerated with all the amplifications of rhetoric", with its non-balanced, 'skewed' counterpart: "As this practice is a commodious subject of raillery to the gay, and serious people declaim upon it as well, it has been ridiculed with all the pleasantry of wit, and furthermore...

...the time now in our power, to provide for the enjoyment of that which, perhaps, may never be granted us, has been frequently remarked; and as this practice...wit, and exaggerated with all the amplifications of rhetoric. Every instance, by which its absurdity might appear most flagrant, has been studiously collected;...