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1821 Aug. 15
J.B. to Portuguese Cortes
Accepting this offer Enduring this trial, your virtues will have endured a
test under which those of the first thoroughly established government
to which the name of virtuous could with any the smallest
degree of propriety be attached have shrunk. It speak
I need not say name it. To name it would be superfluous
any hand may fill up the blank. I have the name in
blank: any no hand but can fill it up. They have cast
off the yoke of Monarchs: they have not cast off the yoke
of lawyers.
I know them well: and it is because I know them
so, as well I do that I them as I do. I have
They have cast scorn on me I have vowed revenge vengeance: no inconsiderable part
single part of my labour is employed in wreaking it.
Let them cast scorn on me I will revenge myself
on them with with justice kindness and with service.
If I but live to make it my yoke not twenty years after my death shall pass
but it shall be I will it have poured it first upon their works and even there no
power on earth shall shake it off.
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