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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    My aim, in fad:, was not praife, which is the lad gift they care to be- flow at lead this was not rny aim as an end, but rather as a means, of pur- chafing fome moderate provifion.for my family,which, tho’ it fhouid exceed my merit, mud fall infinitely fhort of my fervice, if I fucceeded in my at¬ tempt. To fay the truth, the public never ad more wifely, than when they ad mod liberally in the diftribution of their rewards; and here the good they receive is often more to be confidered than the motive from which they re¬ ceive it. Example alone is the end of all public punilhments and rewards* Laws never inflid difgrace in refen t- ment, nor confer honour from grati¬ tude. For it is very hard, my lord, faid a convided felon at the bar to the late excellent judge Burnet, to hang a poor man for dealing a horfe. You are not to be hanged, Sir, anfwered my ever-honoured and beloved friend, for dealing a horfe, but you are to be C 3 hanged