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They know it very well Well do they know it to be impossible, & therefore
they require it. I have felt and feel it so It is impossible without
an effort of such Heroism as in such a cause it is not the
genius of the Age to produce. That reaction
of a steady soul against oppression, which stimulates
to Martyrdom, may arise in any cause
where of which the loud voices of multitudes concur to impress
a strong sense of it's the importance and when
the action which elicits it is violent.
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To swallow a Book which tho' sweeten'd in the
mouth by the prospect of affluence & independency &
decent affluence, [may] will? [frequently] when the first
delirium of enjoyment is over, or the hope of it
evaporated like that which St John eats prove
bitter in the Belly. Physicians of the soul, not wanting to insinuate that is but one gulp, & all it is over.
Ridicule disappointment of the expectations of a security
blasting all his hopes - could to begin
over again - Anger of a Parent duty & Interest
Authority of this whose Judgment he has been accustomed
to be graded by entrusting to sustain the eclat of a rupture
weight or fluency of expression to sustain
of appearance of affectation of singularity -
want of consequence to bear him out
on it.
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