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Title: Visions of a Night: or, Gallery of Letters.Publisher:
British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is
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Lely, Peter; 1848. 8 . 11645.ee.24.(3.)
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receive, and sometimes answer both too as impertinently He never
sets his foot beyond his threshold, unless, like a funeral, he have
a train to follow him; as if, like the dead corpse, he could not
stir, till the bearers were all ready. My life (says Horace,
speaking to one of these magnificos) is a great deal more easy and
commodious than thine, in that I can go into the market, and
cheapen what I please, without being wondered at; and take my horse
and ride as far as Tarentum, without being missed.1 'Tis an
unpleasant constraint to be always under the sight and observation,
and censure of others; as there may be vanity in it, so, methinks,
there should be vexation too of spirit: and I wonder how princes
can endure to have two or three hundred men stand gazing on them
whilst they are at dinner, and taking notice of every bit they eat.
Nothing seems greater and more lordly than the multitude of
domestic servants; but even this too, if weighed seriously, is a
piece of servitude; unless you will be a servant to them (as many
men are, ) the trouble and care of yours in the government of them
all is much more than that of every one of them in their observance
of you. I take the profession of a schoolmaster to be one of the
most useful, and which ought to be of the most honourable in a
commonwealth; yet certainly all his fasces and tyrannical authority
over so many boys takes away his own liberty more than theirs. I do
but slightly touch upon all these particulars of the slavery of
greatness: I shake out a few of their outward chains; their anger,
hatred, 1A free translation of part of Horace's Satire, Book I. vi.
jealousy, fear, envy, grief, and all the et catera of their
passions, which are the secret, but constant, tyrants and torturers
of their life, I omit here, b...
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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