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Libels
of all the struggles which a man must maintain with passion & prejudice, if
this with me, what signifies difficulty it has been the severest—
How often have I not risen to cast into the Thames the products of my cooler
hours under the anguish of some fresh insult offer'd to the objects of my I esteem
- - how often have I not done it?
If there is a man in the Kingdom persuaded of the futility of wrong most of the
found by experience to conclude that the pursuit charges against Government administration of the exaggeration it is the writer of the present essay: but he does a Foreign nations expect in one's story of Wolf Nurse & Child but as I have had occasion to
observe in many instances besides this, the conclusion is not universally just from disapprobation between strong
couched from - - . to punishment: an enterprise which it was dangerous
to attempt & would be ruinous to succeed in.
Gracious Prince! who - - - - -
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it is expected that then you shouldst be more than human: & we must have this, we want you that thou shouldst be
superior to the irritability indignation of injured calumniated virtue, the last best weakness of Royal mind.
Father Judge of thy people! have mercy on their frowardness for they know not what they do. Father of thy people! envy confer to not thence an indulgence which cannot be limited without being destroyed & cannot nor be destroyed without their scorn: & the even abuse of which may be perpetuated without danger.
It is impossible for me to dissemble that no longer] I listen only to my Passions
[I suffer myself to be carried away <add>open the sluice of Passion</add>
(and how often do I listen only to my Passions] so long I find it impossible to avoid
which cannot be limited
without being destroyed & cannot consid the capacity the Idea of Punishment and very severe Punishment from the practice
So long the Ideas of Punishment[s] attach irresistibly upon my imagination
imagination dwells with an irresistible attachment on every idea of Punishment, & if
Punishments on those most which are most severe: [corrupted and] born away by
the popular and almost innate idea of desert, I know not where to stop,
to the contagious fervency of extemporary debate for the weakness of human nature to pretend to resist
to it's illusions, is quackery impossible. But the solitude silent recollection of the Closet Would be very much ashamed to be thought to have a good opinion of the Worthies
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