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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Lamented change to which full many a caufe Inveterate, hopelefs of a cure, confpires. The courfe of human things from good to ill, From ill to worfe, is fatal, never fails. Increafe of power begets increafe of wealth; Wealth luxury, and luxury excefs; Excefs, the fcrofulous and itchy plague, That feizes firft the opulent, defcends To the next rank contagious, and in time Taints downward all the.graduated fcale Of order, from the chariot to the plough. The rich, and they, that have an arm to check The licence of the lowef l in degree, Defert their office; and themfelves, intent On pleafure, haunt the capital, and thus To all the violence of lawlefs hands Refign the fcenes, their prefence might protect. Authority herfelf not feldom fleeps, Though refident, and witnefs of the wrong. The plump convivial parfon often bears The magifterial fword in vain, and lays His reverence and his worfhip both to reft On the fame cufhion of habitual floth. Perhaps timidity reftrains his arm; When he fhould ftrike be trembles, and fets free, Himfelf enflaved by terror of the band, The audacious convict, whom he dares not bind. Perhaps, though by profelfion ghoftly pure, He too may have his vice, and fometimes prove Lefs dainty than becomes his grave outfide In lucrative concerns. Examine well His milk-white hand; the palm is hardly clean? But here and there an ugly fmutch appears. Fob 'twas a bribe that left it: he has touched Corruption. Whofo leeks an audit here Propitious, pays his tribute, game or rifti, Wild fowl or veuifon; and his errand fpeecls. But fafter far, and more than all the reft, A ooble caufe, which none, who bears a fpark Of public virtue, ever wifhed removed, Works the deplored and mifchievous efte5t. Tis univerfal foldierfhip has ftabbed The heart of merit in the meaner...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217783958 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217783953 |
| Weight | 0.72 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.50 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 218 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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