The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding].

  • Henry Fielding
Date:
1755
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Credit: The journal of a voyage to Lisbon / [Henry Fielding]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    plunges into his element with perfect impunity. To fpeak a plain truth, there is no trufting to any contract with one whom the wile citizens of London call a bad man ; for, with fuch a one, tho’ your bond be ever fo ftroog, it will prove in the end good for nothing. What then is to be done in this cafe ? What, indeed ! but to call in the affiftance of that tremendous magis¬ trate, the juftice of peace, who can, and often doth lay good and bad men in equal durance ; and, tho' he feldom cares to ftretch his bonds to what is great,, never finds any thing too minute for their detention, but will hold the jfmalleft reptile alive fo faft in his noofe, that he can never get out 'till he is let drop through it. Why, therefore, upon the breach of thofe contracts, fliould not an immedi¬ ate application be made to the neareft magiflrate