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Excerpt from The Political Register, and Impartial Review, Vol. 7: For 1770
Penetrate we ever (0 little into the reafon, why? The vnl ar form an idea of gander/i, fo indecorous to a great king, we than find it is breaute they confider it ofcourfe as accompanied by fome concomitant vice ordefeé't, in which view it ceafes to'obe a virtue, and degenerates into indolence, imbecility or timidity, and often becomes a real crime. Thus to bear with injultice is not bhrely deviating from the character of being good, but. It is becoming bad. To fufi'er an atrociouscrime to pafa unpunilbed, is to permit it, and to permit or to authorize in a prince, is nearly the fame'. To connive at or tolerate abules, without being con?rain ed by necefiity, is indolence, and to comply when duty requires a firm denial, is not goodnefs, but want of refolution. A king therefore who fails in any one of thefe infiances can pretend to no more than the title of a goodwaturcd, which ignorant people con found with that of a good king, though they are aimoli as different as vice from virtue.
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