Articles liés à Select Essays Of Dr. Johnson, Volume 2
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No. 148. SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1751. Me pater scevis onsret catenis Quod viro clermns misero peberci, Me vel extremis Numidarum in agros Classe releget. Hon.1 Ms let my father load with chains, Or banish toN umidia sfarthest plains !M ycrime, that I, a loyal wife, In kind compassion, sav dmy husbands life. Fr.ynxis. jOLITICIANS remark, that no oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority. The robber may be seized, and the invader repelled, whenever they are found ;they who pretend no right but that of force, may by force be punished or suppressed. But when plunder bears the name of impost, and murder is perpetrated by a judicial sentence, fortitude is intimidated, and wisdom confounded: resistance 1H orace, 3O des, xi. -is.
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