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Religion, Charity, Pure Benevolence, And Morals, Mingled Up With Superstitious Rites And Ferocious Cruelty, Form In Their Combination Institutions The Most Powerful And The Most Pernicious That Have Ever Afflicted Mankind.

The Barbarian Chieftain, Who Defended His Country Against The Roman Invasion, Driven To The Remotest Extremity Of Britain, And Stimulating His Followers To Battle, By All That Has Power Of Persuasion Upon The Human Heart, Concludes His Exhortation By An Appeal To These Irresistible Feelings - "think Of Your Forefathers And Of Your Posterity."

However Tiresome To Others, The Most Indefatigable Orator Is Never Tedious To Himself. The Sound Of His Own Voice Never Loses Its Harmony To His Own Ear; And Among The Delusions, Which Self-love Is Ever Assiduous In Attempting To Pass Upon Virtue, He Fancies Himself To Be Sounding The Sweetest Tones

To Live Without Having A Cicero And A Tacitus At Hand Seems To Me As If It Was Aprivation Of One Of My Limbs.

To Believe That Everyone Is Honest Is Folly, But To Believe That No One Is Honest Is Worse.