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On The Depravity Of Manners In Different Ranks Of Life.
ON THE DEPRAVITY OF MANNERS IN DIFFERENT RANKS OF LIFE .
JT as been often remarked , that the English plume themselves , 7 much / Pon their public spirit , as they are pleased to call it b u t thisl very widel y different from that which wanned the breasts of tie - boasted progenitors , the Romans . Theirs , as well as the peop e of Greece flowed from the veneration of the reli gious and civil estabhsli 6 yWhkh W tin ™* te from insult and
St IfTT ' f ** P I o - r , rn . ; P erchance > a sin 8 'e Diagoras appeared to loosen these principles , he was proscribed , and a price set upon his head nliii , * music * T ^ ' P ° ry > , co » versation of the antients , were applied to . aggrandBe ; religion , and make it appear in the utmost spS * nnl hV ! ° H ambjtl 0 n T , the gI ° ry of makin S acquisition to the public , and they despised the distinction of table and equi , a ° e as muchasAve admire themHence noble
. a simplicity of manners relied among all on er d exc ] u (? ed Juxu wi / its J JSJ rapine ; great m the council and in the field , they grew illusSous and ' ! j n Ttente i t 0 think and 3 Ct ab 0 v « the v 3 gJ , theyTecl and die hke them Disinterested ambition was catching amo l a H ? " % deV 0 t f , ^ ™ ntry , and the trophy of < Tehfro would not let another sleep till he had raised a second
It was the judgment of antiquity , that national security could not sabSiStvvithoutnaqonalvirtue , andthat generalloosenessand ™ phane nesswere the seeds of ruin to a state f in consequence of ? lif judl mentthe opinion and lives of the populace were a principa concern and tney were not suffered to be corrupted in jest or in earneT ' A vicious sentiment in a theatrical performance at Athens would have cost the poet his liberty lifewhen Euri
or : pidef mad oTe of is actors say ,- " R . ches are the supreme good , and with reason Ixdte the admiration of the gods and men , " the whole theatre rose upon Wm and he had been immediatel y banished , if he had not desired SS till the end of the piece , where the speaker of this sentence Ses J' Uflety iWd fl ' iV 0 Ut itted t 0
and ^ t i y are P ™ trea ^ our s te for w , enT'a ? ed by acclanlatio ^ to debauch the people : our & £ for what is fine is gone , together Avith our relish for what is ™ od If out gentry will countenance diversions of a dangerous tendencv at es TTSaU ° n ° ! V r t 3 bIeS ' and the entertainments of fteiS co 2 / 5 f i COnSplre t 0 infi , s | ' into ^ r domestics ( who will Eysbe ftheiNupenors and fine at
g , gentlemen second-hand ) aspirit of . nreh g . on , licentiousness , and misrule , 1 shall not Avonde " f h , tin I T £ T r i eh P y- ° ' ° «> -d -ttehdanS 2 orfoiu fellows , from behind the coach , cut the owner ' s throat , and ! step v ? . .
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On The Depravity Of Manners In Different Ranks Of Life.
ON THE DEPRAVITY OF MANNERS IN DIFFERENT RANKS OF LIFE .
JT as been often remarked , that the English plume themselves , 7 much / Pon their public spirit , as they are pleased to call it b u t thisl very widel y different from that which wanned the breasts of tie - boasted progenitors , the Romans . Theirs , as well as the peop e of Greece flowed from the veneration of the reli gious and civil estabhsli 6 yWhkh W tin ™* te from insult and
St IfTT ' f ** P I o - r , rn . ; P erchance > a sin 8 'e Diagoras appeared to loosen these principles , he was proscribed , and a price set upon his head nliii , * music * T ^ ' P ° ry > , co » versation of the antients , were applied to . aggrandBe ; religion , and make it appear in the utmost spS * nnl hV ! ° H ambjtl 0 n T , the gI ° ry of makin S acquisition to the public , and they despised the distinction of table and equi , a ° e as muchasAve admire themHence noble
. a simplicity of manners relied among all on er d exc ] u (? ed Juxu wi / its J JSJ rapine ; great m the council and in the field , they grew illusSous and ' ! j n Ttente i t 0 think and 3 Ct ab 0 v « the v 3 gJ , theyTecl and die hke them Disinterested ambition was catching amo l a H ? " % deV 0 t f , ^ ™ ntry , and the trophy of < Tehfro would not let another sleep till he had raised a second
It was the judgment of antiquity , that national security could not sabSiStvvithoutnaqonalvirtue , andthat generalloosenessand ™ phane nesswere the seeds of ruin to a state f in consequence of ? lif judl mentthe opinion and lives of the populace were a principa concern and tney were not suffered to be corrupted in jest or in earneT ' A vicious sentiment in a theatrical performance at Athens would have cost the poet his liberty lifewhen Euri
or : pidef mad oTe of is actors say ,- " R . ches are the supreme good , and with reason Ixdte the admiration of the gods and men , " the whole theatre rose upon Wm and he had been immediatel y banished , if he had not desired SS till the end of the piece , where the speaker of this sentence Ses J' Uflety iWd fl ' iV 0 Ut itted t 0
and ^ t i y are P ™ trea ^ our s te for w , enT'a ? ed by acclanlatio ^ to debauch the people : our & £ for what is fine is gone , together Avith our relish for what is ™ od If out gentry will countenance diversions of a dangerous tendencv at es TTSaU ° n ° ! V r t 3 bIeS ' and the entertainments of fteiS co 2 / 5 f i COnSplre t 0 infi , s | ' into ^ r domestics ( who will Eysbe ftheiNupenors and fine at
g , gentlemen second-hand ) aspirit of . nreh g . on , licentiousness , and misrule , 1 shall not Avonde " f h , tin I T £ T r i eh P y- ° ' ° «> -d -ttehdanS 2 orfoiu fellows , from behind the coach , cut the owner ' s throat , and ! step v ? . .