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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    c nors fhall abandon himfelf or them- f felves to the unbridled purfuit of the ? wildeft pleafures or defires, unable to * reftrain any paffion, but pofieffed with ‘ an infatiable bad difeafe 5 if fuch fhall 4 attempt to govern, and at the fame € time to trample on all laws, there can * be no means of prefervation left for * the wretched people.’ Plato de Leg. lib 4* p* 713. 0. 714. edit. Servant. It is true that Plato is here treating of the higheft: or fovereign power in a ftate -y but it is as true, that hisobfervati* ons are general, and may be applied to all inferior powers: and, indeed, every fubordinate degree is immediately deriv¬ ed from the higheft; and as it is equally protected by the fame force, and fandtified by the fame authority, is alike dangerous to the well-being of the fubjedt. Of all powers, perhaps, there is none fo fandtified and protedted, as this which is under our prefent confiderati- E 6 on.