EULOGY ON GENERAL WASHINGTON. 



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infamous FaustVka ; by the elevation of her lovers 

 to polls of honor; by decreeing her deification, and 



requiring the youth of Rome to pay their vows before 



her altars. 



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To the firft Peter of RuiTia, the title of Great 



than in moft inftances, in 



has been more permanent, 



which it has been alTumed or beftowed : 



but 



we are 



fliocked at the recorded inftances of his cruelties, and he 

 is quoted by a celebrated theorift,* to exemplify the 

 exigence of ^ public fpirit, without the fpirit of huma- 



Vi 



A 



DEUS, 



reflgned his crown to his 

 enjoyments of privacy -and 

 became irkfome to him : 



with 



4 



fon. 



he 



pparcnt magnanimity, 

 ind fought the placid 

 t. But his retirement 

 anguifhed for the 



re- 



enjoyment of power 

 his days in a prifon. 



caballed againfl his fon and ended 



A Lo 



and a Fr 



dor of their lives, died without 



with all the fpl 



ting any regre 



and a M 



famed for his confummate prud 



levemen 



was 



ence, as well as for his military acl 



accufed of the meannefs of avarice, and of protradling 



a fanguinary war for the enlargement of property and 



pow 



I 



I were 



to felea the character, among the g 



men 



of 



quity 



to JVyiSHING 



for the defe 

 nal and int 

 and order J 



th 



Id be Ti 



exhibiting 



nearefl i*efem 



d del 



fee 



for the eflablifhm 



J memorable 



f Sict'ly, from exter- 



nit of civilit^^ 



and for the quiet enjoyment 



to a 



vered 



» Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments. 



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