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her ruins. Thus the Centaur left, with Deïnira, 

 his robe empoifoned with the blood of the Hydra, 

 as a prefent which (hould prove fatal to his con- 

 queror. Thus the miferies which opprefs Man- 

 kind, pafs from huts to palaces, from the Line to 

 the Poles, from Ages paft to Ages yet to come ; and 

 their long and lingering efFeâs are a fearful voice 

 crying in the ears of the Potentates of the Earth : 

 " Learn to be juft, and not to opprefs the mi- 

 " ferable." 



Not only the elements, but reafon itfelf, cor- 

 rupts in the haunts of wretchednefs. What tor- 

 rents of error, fear, fuperftition, difcord, have broken 

 out in the lower regions of Society, and fwelled to 

 the terror and the fubverfion of Thrones ! The 

 more that men are opprelTed, the more miferable 

 are their oppreffors, and the more feeble is the 

 Nation which they compofe. For the force which 

 tyrants employ to fupport their authority at home, 

 is never exercifed but at the expence of that which 

 they might employ, to maintain their refpedability 

 abroad. 



Firft, from the haunts of mifery iffue forth prof- 

 titutions, thefts, murders, conflagrations, highway- 

 robberies, revolts, and a multitude of phyfical 

 evils befides, which, in all countries, are the plagues 

 that tyranny produces. But thofe of opinion are 



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