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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    no man is born to be a Have, unlefs to him who is able to make him fo. Thirdly, This fubj edition is abfo- lote, and con lids of a perfedt refig na¬ tion both of body and foul to the difpofal of another ; after which refignation, during a certain time, his fubjedt re¬ tains no more power over his own will, than an Afiaticflave, or anEnglifih wife, by the laws of both countries, and by the cudoms of one of them. If I fiho.dd mention the inftance of a ftage^ coachman, many of my readers would recognize the truth of what I have here obferved ; all indeed, that ever have been under the dominion of that tyrant, who, in this free country, is as abfolute as a Turkifh Bafhaw. In two particu¬ lars only his power is defective ; he cannot prefs you into his fervice, and if you enter yourfelf at one place, on con¬ dition of being difcharged at a certain time at another, he is obliged to per¬ form his agreement, if God permitk but, all the intermediate time, you are . abfolutely