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Would the blood
if all the innocents
[in the
Foundling Hospital]
who lifted
up their voiceschanted thanks
giving to heaven in
thanksgiving,
for his Majesty's
recovery satiate
his Minister's
thirst for glory.
Let him give up
his war, he
should have
my cheerful
vote for it
Would a hundred
thousand
a year [were
him to the envy
of probity and
peace] reconcile
him to the insipidity
of innocence
and peace
I would not grudge
it him
It requires
wisdom to keep
the world cool:
but the silliest
of boys may set
it on fire.
The profession
of war makes
us miserable
to the most flagrant
profusion
an enemy
other time
other profusion
is to
this.
To think that
all our lives
the heavy burthens
we groan under
have had this
feeling for their
course - that
had we kept
clear of this
we should have
had none of
them! - that
if we can prevail
upon ourselves
to keep
clear of it we
shall have some
of them no future!
We are to keep
shapes &c that we
dont want, for
shew — only because
we have
kept them so long
As a King would
keep hounds, and
be supposed to keep
for whole
and because hound
& were kept
by his predecessors.
—
The Boy of Turner
asked
he would have
burnt it for half
the money.
To England every
foreign partplaces is a Tu
Great preparation
in the hopes of doing
great mischief: if
the expedition fails
the money is gone:
if it succeeds, the
money is good still.
the mischiefloss by done by of the
fare never amounts
to the price of the
combustibles — Billush —
St. Malo St. Cas.
In different option
Pitt & Jack the Painter
act the same parts.
Pitt as a hero, drawn
by two-legged horses
pursued & ennobled
and bemented
Jack is a felon abominated
& hanged.
War. all unjust
because vicarious.
In war vengeance
and punishment
are always vicarious:
the unoffending
soldiers are killed
and unoffending
peasants &c plundered
for the offence
of the King
or the Minister
K. of Sweden
should have fought
with a champion
named by the
E. of Russia -
ex.g. Pr. Polionkia
Statesmen who
promote war for
the sake of the
patronage & other
plunderers are
like the Thieftakers
who set
people to committ
robberies that they
might have the
benefit of it
Compare the
courts
a man )(
to check a nation.
—
Mischief is suffered
in hopes
that mischief
may be done.
The mischief
we do to ourselves
is not only the
greatest of the
two, but it comes )
first: what we
hope to do to others,
besides being
less is not only
contingent but
remote
Our's a bad united
of Louis 14th:
By following (in
our treatment of
Denmark the example
of the
insolence of Louis
14 we shall become
as odious as he
was. The conquests
he made (being
contiguous) were
personally of advantage
to him how
much otherwise
to his subjects.
whereas no conquests
can be otherwise
than expensive and
mischievous to
us.
—
A Japanese when
the is conceives a very angry
partial enmity againstwith a man rips
open his own
belly, in confidence hopes
that the other will
follow his example
This at least
- whether true or
no is what we are
told of them. This
we call insanity:
as prudence in comparison
with ours
The Japanese gets
stab life for lifefor stab: we
at the expence for
the stab we give ourselves
get but the
chance of giving a
scratch.
The Japan madness
is said to bea
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in a nation
share a lea
assassinate
of assassi
for among
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robbery
necessary to
existence of
Punishment
-don for revi
so. Ex.g.
of
Chapter whe
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wonderfully.
—
Gibral
Levant Tru
cessary
Kept up
-ecessary to
Levant to
which a the exp
which really
necessary is
—
National in
-haps it is
the thing ha
once: and the
residual ma
story. That
madness
one is true
dispute
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