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that hope was all as sudden converted
When wishes my Ears were stricken into reality assurance with the News of that
act of the Legislative, as magnanimous as (it
was) unexpected.
OBSTACLES ABOLITION OF PARL PRIVILEGE deom Suits
Prejudices Interests of Legislators Aristocratic
Where shall we find its example I (do not) say not
in the sink Chaos of (domestic) Barbarism but in the Grecian
or Roman Commonwealths those perpetual objects
of an admiration preference so often ill-deserved.
Where shall we see Patricians Who can show us the Senate. Where else of that Senate which in a
time of profound peace, not to the neglect of private interests by the external danger of its own any motion surrender'd it's undisputed privileges to the public.
§
In an age a country in which every virtue honor esteem is in request
except beyond gratitude to them for the happiness which it enjoys
(to those to whom under heaven it is dire)
in which anything 3 4 almost 2 will sooner be permitted
to a man than to acknowledge merit where he there is
power, in which adulation itself from independency is almost become a virtue when paid by independency by its
rarity, may I be pardoned the (crime of) not dissembling
(of) those feelings sentiments, by (at the hands of) those who own them not which the part conception of (gratitude) gave birth to
& which) which reflection has confirmed.
If it had been done two thousand years ago it
would have been admired & applauded. In
it lose it's value because the present time has
the benefit of it is is to the present time to ourselves – our own
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