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BEP(P.783.040
9 Aug 1783:32 (2/95)
A correspondent begs leave to recommend to those people who
are desirous of being governed by popular assemblies, to
read those scenes in Shakespeare's tragedy of Julius Caesar,
where the effects of the speeches of Brutus and Anthony upon
the populace of Rome are so admirably delineated by that
great master of nature. If they think, says our
correspondent, that the populace of this country are not
made of the same stuff, to be wrought upon by the same means
to be led by popular demagogues, but are reasonable,
reflecting beings, well informed, and capable of discerning
the true interests of the country . . .
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