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values it should give up every thing but his honour 

 to preserve it; and there can be no disgrace in 

 yielding voluntarily to our persecutors, when we 

 are certain that resistance is in vain : but this doc- 

 trine can seldom be applied to the case of a whole 

 nation, for when tyranny and rapine are making 

 their wicked strides over a country (as has some- 

 times happened even in Europe) the people would 

 seldom, fail to rid themselves of their oppressors, if 

 they resolved to rise as one man, and bravely op- 

 pose them. 



