Improbity

Q. Improbity, therefore, is a sign of false judgment and a narrow mind?

The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788

So that the Bare Prejudice is fufficient to turn the Scale, where it was Gold-weight before '■ unlefs we Ballance the Improbity of the one, with the Improbity of the other, as the Ape did here in the Fable.

Fables of Æsop, and other eminent mythologists : with morals and reflexions. 1692

For when one Man of an Exemplary Improbity, Charges another of the fame Stamp, in a Court of a Juftice, he lies under the Difad vantage of a ftrong Sufpicion, even before he is Heard j and People are Prepar'd to Believe the Worft of him by Anticipation, and before his Cafe is Known.

Fables of Æsop, and other eminent mythologists : with morals and reflexions. 1692