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NHG-P.765.048
30 Aug 1765:11,12 (464)
[Article about the Stamp Act]. . .
What ingenious mind that reflects on their ancient state,
can think of their present without weeping for the human
species? Instead of those brave exalted spirits, that were
once the protectors of the innocent, and the conquerors of
the proud world, are they not now become (as a great poet
expresses it,
A thin despairing number all subdu'd'
The slave of slaves by superstition fool'd,
By vice unman'd, and a licentious rule;
Void of all feeling for the public weal;
In guile alone ingenious, and alone
In murder brave?
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