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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    error, and had aiked pardon, the lady WGuld permit him to put his hat on again, if he chofe it. This he refuted with feme degree of furlinefs, and failed not to convince me that, if I fhould condefcend to become more gen¬ tle, he would foon grow more rude.; I now renewed a refle&ion, which I have often feen occafion to make, that there is nothing fo incongruous in nature as any kind of power, with low7- nefs of mind and of ability j and that there is nothing more deplorable than the want of truth in the whimfical no¬ tion of Plato; who tells us that £ Sa- 4 turn, well knowing the ftate of hu~ 4 man affairs, gave us kings and rulers, 1 not of human, but divine original: 4 for as we make not fhepherds of 4 iheep, nor oxherds of oxen, norgoat- 4 herds of goats; but place fome of our 4 own kind over all, as being better and 4 fitter to govern them: in the fame 4 manner, were demons by the Divine 4 Love, fet over us, as a race of beings E 5 _ s of