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I have said: — something of that which I
have said, I was ere this time [long] ere this time
to have done. Providence has ordered otherwise
.... My grey hairs are already going pointing to the grave.
It remains for me to see try whether my country
be as devoid of faith and feeling, as those by whom
whom it suffers itself to be ruled. the jumble of words have given to it for its rulers.
When I am tried no more in it it may be said of me
by those who look upon this book that I have
neither tried nor written nor lived altogether in vain:
Mine has been no common fate. .... mere means humble enough to claim and
neither weak enough to allow by plenitude of lawless power one exemption
from the approved course of equal justice.
always to truth only all along against conscience/in the teeth not only without reason but without
prudence. — amidst the undissembled shame even
of dependents and the open up upbraidings of
bosom friends.
It may then be said - simple neglect
would have been sufficient: disappointment and
ruin at the end of five years of treachery and
opposition were too much.
I have seen one Act of Parliament tramped
under foot, and the effect of another frustrated by combination
I have seen the authority of the 12 Judges set at naught laughed to scorn
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