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Show EOMMON‘ SENSE. b8‘ it could not have brought it .t'ortb, at a'more feafonable' ,juné‘ture, or a more necefl‘ary time. The bloody minded" pefs of the one, thew the neccfiity of purfuing the acetone of the other. Men read by way of revenge.. And the ‘Speech, inflead of terrifying, ptepated a way for the manly ‘ , - . ' principles of lndependance. ' they er motive whatev , from filenc'e even, , Cer any, and may artfe, have a hurtful tendency, when they give the leafi degree of countenance to bafe and wicked performances} wherefore; if this maxim be admitted, it naturally" follows, that the King's Speech, as being a piece of finifhed villany', deferved, and Frill defervet, a general execution both by the Congrefs and the peeple. Yet, as the domefiic tranquility of a nation, depends greatly, on the (be/My ufwhat may properly be called NATIONAL MANNERS, it is often better, to pafs fome things over in filent difdain, than to make ufe of {och new mothods of diflike, .as might intro- fluce the leafi innovation, on that guardian of out peace and {afety.‘- And, perhaps, it is chiefly owing to this prudent delicacy, that the King's Syeech, hath not, before now, {uffered a public execution. The Speech if it may he caled fl one, is nothing better than a wilful audactoua libel again 7 man-‘ ‘of ce exiflen the and good, on comm the truth, the ofi'eving kind; and it a formal and pompous method of thin But " ; tyrants of{ pride the to es up human facrific the privilege" general mafTacte of mankind, it one of for as nature ; Kings of uence and the certain confeq gh they are knows them mat, they know not liter, and althou are be. and a:, not know beings of our own creating, they good one hath Speech 11h: s. creator their come the goda of to deceive, neiquality, which in, that it it not calculated it. Brutather can we, even if we would, be deceived by es us at'no' It_leay , it. of face the on appear y tyrann , lity and moment of read: Iofa :, And every line. convinces, even in the for prey, the naked and ing, that He, who hunt: the woods ._ of Britain untutored Indian, it left a Savage than the King whining a of father ve putati the ‘ Sir John Daltymple; II): puof addn/J 7/2: jefuitical piece, fallacioufly called, " hath, cx," Amanr tdntmf inbabi ll of Erica/mo to 11):, ple/me were peo the that on, dfiti fupp vain a ' perhapt, from to . . . ' |