It is desirable further to observe, that the only reason why I publish this edition anonymously is because I feel very strongly that, in matters of the kind with which the present essay deals, opinions and arguments should be allowed to produce the exact degree of influence to which as opinions and arguments they are entitled: they should be permitted to stand upon their own intrinsic merits alone, and quite beyond the shadow of that unfair Prejudication which cannot but arise so soon as their author's authority, or absence of authority, becomes known.
"A Candid Examination of Theism"
George John Romanes
The clerk observed, that there was an evident Prejudication, which confirmed the former suspicion of a conspiracy against the life of Captain Oakum; for, because, how could Morgan so positively pronounce that the captain and surgeon would d-n'd, unless he had intention to make away with them before they could have time to repent?
"The Adventures of Roderick Random"
Tobias Smollett