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NHG-P.765.049
30 Aug 1765:13,21 (464)
Bondage is ign'rance, and he that sees,
Needs no director cure for that disease;
Knowledge and liberty, go hand in hand,
Fools only will obey when knaves command.
The sordid yoke no longer can be borne,
When once he sees, he must the grievance form.
N.B. These lines may be found in a poem call'd, Caledonia.
. . . [26 lines, 25 more lines, about liberty and the Stamp
Act]
But not to dwell upon this disagreeable subject any longer,
we shall only recommend to such gentlemen a serious perusal
of those most apposite lines in Addison's Cato.--
O Porcius, is there not some chosen curse,
Some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven,
Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man
Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?
(N.B. This piece was wrote several days before the late
Stirs in Boston.) Boston, August 19, 1765.
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