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IC.779.001
21 Jan 1779:13 (11/544)
[In long "Letter to Lord Chatham" discussing present times:]
These [foolish fashions, gambling, attention to the
moment], your Lordship knows, have ever been the symptoms of
a decline, which always did, and always must end in a
dissolution. There is another, not more equivocal, symptom
of the declension of empires; I mean, the infatuate
disregard of all warning. The jovial crew continue to laugh
and sing, and carouse, till the very moment the ship strikes
upon the rock, and the foaming ocean buries them in
eternity.
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