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MG-A(G.765.047
5 Sep 1765:11 (1061)
From the Boston Evening Post, August 19.
Bondage is ign'rance, and he that sees,
Needs no directer cure for that disease;
Knowledge and liberty, go hand in hand,
Fools only will obey, when knaves command.
The sordid yoke no longer can be borne,
When once he sees, he must the grievance scorn.
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But not to dwell upon this disagreeable subject any longer,
we shall only recommend to such gentlemen a serious perusal
of those most apposite lines in Addison's Cato.
O Porcius, is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,
Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man
Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?
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