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3576. CORRUPTpular.

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Deserves their Hate: And their Affections are appetite, desires

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Upon their conduct swims with fins of lead,
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3577. HUNGER.

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3581. DEATH..

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§ True Valour is not foolish in it's Stand, Nor cowardly in Retreat.

3583. WILLINGNESS.

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Those aid an Action best who are most willing. 3584. COUNTRY.

+ He has deserv'd the Name of Citizen

To whom his Country's dearer than himself. 3585. FLATTERY.

When Drums and Trumpets

In the field prove Flatterers, Courts and civil

Must be all false-fac'd soothing,

3580. KNOWLEDGE.

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Her Deeds with doing of them*. 3588. INGRATITUDE.197 916 179 Ingratitude is monstrous, yra? Jala

• Ipsa quidem Virtus abimet pulcherrima Merces.

3589. MAJORITIES.

Be it what it will the greater part carries it. 3590. POPULARITY.

The Crowd, great part of it however, prefers the Hat to the Heart.

3591. AMBITION.

Selfish Ambition with a proud Heart wears, While young, it's humble weeds.

3592. ELECTION-popular.

2. Who have the People's Voice ought to be such As do deserve their Love.

3593.

3. In an Election to high Public Trusts, Voices ill-given are Curses to the Givers. 3594. LEARNING IGNORANCE.

48. The learned should not be as common Fools: Nor should the unlearned boast their Ignorance. 3. 3595. REASONS-VOTES."

5. Reasons are worthier than mere Votes. Jo! 3596. POPULARITY-false.

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3597. LIFE-it's true Measurest nie taulog A Prefer a noble Life before a long

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3. Be firmd and not more fearful than discreet,! And love the fundamental part of the State W More than you doubt the change of it,

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4. Beware: and lick not

The Sweet that is your Poison, 3601. DISSENSIONS Civil :—

-MODERATION,

In civil Discords more Respect on both Sides Were wise and just, generous and all-preserving, 3602. ANARCHY it's EVIL.

§ Lawless Confusion lays a City waste:
It brings the Roof to the Foundation,
And buries what till then distinctly rang'd
In heaps and piles of Ruin.

3603. AUTHORITY.

25. We must or stand by our Authority, Or be content to lose it.

3604. MODERATION.

38. Those who would truely be their Country's Friends

Should temperately proceed to heal what others Would violently redress.

3605. COMPENSATION.APA One Time will pay another. 3606. RASHNESS.

That Manhood is call'd Foolery which stands

Against a falling Fabric.

3607. LAW.

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3608. MODERATION.

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3609. PRIVILEGE.

+ Proceed by Process rather than by Power*. 3610. VIOLENCE-it's Evils incalculable. + The End of violent Courses is unknown To the Beginning, and beyond Conjecture.

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3611. SERVILITY avoid the Appearance of it. + Abstain from Semblance of Servility; Lest thou surcease to honor thine own Truth, And by thy Body's Action teach the Mind A most inherent Baseness +.

3612. CALUMNY-the ANSWER to it.

5§. What by invention base Men charge, the Will answer in their Honor.

3613. ANGER.

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69. Anger being once chaf'd, cannot

Be rein'd again to Temperance: And then speaks What's in the heart; though it be that which looks To break the Neck.

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8§. A Patriot loves

His Country's Good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound than his own Life. 3616. IGNORANCE.

98. Dull Ignorance finds nothing till it feels..

*It had been well had this been observed in the Cases of Mr. GALE JONES and Sir FRANCIS BURDETT.

A Maxim from the depths of human Nature and moral Philosophy: And expresst with the same Sublimity as it was conceiv'd.

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