And yet, as there is no conduct so fair and disinterested but that it may be misunderstood by ignorance, and misrepresented by malice, I have been sometimes tempted to preserve my own reputation at the expense of my reader, and to transcribe the original, or at least to
quote chapter and verse, whenever I have made use either of the thought or expression of another.
I am not able to
quote chapter and verse on this matter from memory, and I do not have all the documentation to hand as I write, but I suspect that something similar may have occurred regarding the authorisation of the new B&Q store near Culverhouse Cross, aspects of which development have caused some dismay among those whose homes adjoin the site, as a recent issue of the HTV television programme The Ferret publicised in a media exposure which was surely in the public interest.
