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for as to our Customs and manner of living, and our common
concerns and domestic affairs, we indeed manage them not
only with more ingenuity but likewise with greater elegance,
but as to publick affairs our Ancestors without doubt much
excelled in enacting wise laws and institutes; why need
I mention military Affairs? when our Ancestors excelled
them so much in bravery, and so much more in discipline,
and in short, as to every thing that is to be attained by nature;
and not by learning, neither Greece, nor any other Nation can
compare with us; for where can such dignity, such Constancy,
such Magnaminity, such probity, such honour, such ——
Fortitude in all its various distinctions, be found capable
of being compared with what our Ancestors were conspicuous
for? indeed Greece excelled us in learning and all sorts of
literary knowledge, and well might they do so, since we never
attempted to dispute it with them; for as with the Greeks
their poets were of the greatest antiquity of any of their learned
Men, so Homer and Hesiod were before the building of Rome,
and Archilochus in the time of Romulus; Poetry made its
appearance very late with us, for Livy wrote his history
almost 410 years after the building of Rome, in the ——
Consulship of C. Claudius the Son of Caecius, and M.
Tutidanus, a year before the birth of Ennius, who was
older than Plautus and Naevius; hence it appears it
was late that Poets were either received or known by us.
tho' it is mentioned in the Records that the guests at
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Identifier: | JB/537/085/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 537.
Date_1	1761-01-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	537	Main Headings	Tusculan Questions
Folio number	085	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Copy/fair sheet	Number of Pages
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Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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