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NHG-P.776.030
5 Oct 1776:41 ([20])
ON LIBERTY.
O despicable state of all that groan
Under a blind dependency on one!
How far inferior to the herds that range,
With native freedom o'er the woods & plains!
With them no fallacies of schools prevail,
Nor of a right divine the nauseous tale,
Can give to one among themselves the pow'r,
Without controul his fellows to devour.
The arts to hurt themselves by reas'ning wrong.
How 'ere the foolish notion first began,
Of trusting absolute to lawless man;
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