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<note>Misrule</note> | <note>Misrule</note> | ||
<note>Narrowing | <note>Narrowing despotism</note> | ||
<p>§ Narrowing the sphere of despotic influence<lb/><del>A drunken man says L<hi rend="superscript">d</hi> Coke<lb/></del></p> | <p>§ Narrowing the sphere of despotic influence<lb/><del>A drunken man says L<hi rend="superscript">d</hi> Coke<lb/></del></p> | ||
A <del>dur</del> drunken man says Lord Coke is<lb/>a voluntary devil. [A pensioner <add>during | <p>A <del>dur</del> drunken man says Lord Coke is<lb/>a voluntary devil. [A pensioner <add>during <gap/></add> <del>he</del> might in<lb/>like manner have defined a voluntary slave.]<lb/>Upon <add>the p</add> the same plan <add>With at least equal propriety</add> he might have defined<lb/>a pensioner during pleasure a voluntary slave. <del>[The<lb/>latter definition as well as <add>however not less than</add> the former requires certain<lb/>provisions to make it just <add>reduce it to within the bounds of justice truth</add>: that the pension] </del><lb/>It must be <sic>remember'd</sic> <del>always</del> <add>however</add> that there are degrees<lb/>of slavery: <del>and that</del> the degree of slavery in this<lb/>case will depend on the ratio which the amount<lb/>of the pension bears to the rest of a man's income. <add>means.</add><lb/>It must be <sic>remember'd</sic> also that <del>slavery</del> <add>degree of subjection</add> depends<lb/>not solely upon the <del>outward force</del> <add>external impulse</add> , but upon the<lb/>inward <del>temper of the mind</del> <add>powers of resistance</add> : [Aesop and Epictetus<lb/>bore the name of slaves.] Slavery in its ugliest form<lb/>could not break the mind of Epictetus. <del>That generous<lb/><gap/> which</del> Recent <gap/> have <sic>discover'd</sic><lb/>virtues of as tough a grain as any that ever<lb/>grew on Grecian soil: but political calculations<lb/>must be governed <add>determined</add> not by the few but by the many.<lb/><note>It</note></p> | ||
Indirect
Misrule
Narrowing despotism
§ Narrowing the sphere of despotic influence
A drunken man says Ld Coke
A dur drunken man says Lord Coke is
a voluntary devil. [A pensioner during he might in
like manner have defined a voluntary slave.]
Upon the p the same plan With at least equal propriety he might have defined
a pensioner during pleasure a voluntary slave. [The
latter definition as well as however not less than the former requires certain
provisions to make it just reduce it to within the bounds of justice truth: that the pension]
It must be remember'd always however that there are degrees
of slavery: and that the degree of slavery in this
case will depend on the ratio which the amount
of the pension bears to the rest of a man's income. means.
It must be remember'd also that slavery degree of subjection depends
not solely upon the outward force external impulse , but upon the
inward temper of the mind powers of resistance : [Aesop and Epictetus
bore the name of slaves.] Slavery in its ugliest form
could not break the mind of Epictetus. That generous
which Recent have discover'd
virtues of as tough a grain as any that ever
grew on Grecian soil: but political calculations
must be governed determined not by the few but by the many.
It
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