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Excerpt from The Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres, or an Introduction to Languages, Poetry, Rhetorick, History, Moral Philosophy, Physicks, &C, Vol. 3: With Reflections on Taste, and Instructions With Regard to the Eloquence of the Pulpit, the Bar, and the Stage
Which fublifis no more, condemns the unjufi abafe of authority with inexorable rigour.
There is no age or condition, which may not de rive the fame advanta es from hiftory; and whati have (aid of princes an conquerors, comprehends alfo in (ome meafuhe all perfons in power, minifiers of fiate, generals of armies, officers, magifirates, gover nors o provinces, prelates, ecclefiafiica1 fuperiors both fecular and regular, fathers and mothers, mailers and mifircll'es; in a word, whoever have authority over others. For fuch perfons have fometimes more haugh tincis, pride and humour in a very limited fiatton than Kings in theirs, and carry their defpotzck difpo fition and arbitrary power to a greater length. Hiitory therefore is of great advantage, to lay down ufeful lefl'ons to them all, and prefent them with a faithful mirror of their duties and obligations by an unfuf peeled hand, and thereby make them fenfible, that the are all confiituted for the fake of their interiors, an not their inferiors for them.
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