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Show " ides of March"<faid the great and good mat: to hi: friend (Julius jult before the battle of Phi. iippi) " On the ides of march l DEVOTED My " LIFE to my Country, a/za'fl/zcc that time, 1 ba-ve [iroed A llth or LIBERTY AND GLORY". inf‘pired with public virtue, touched with the wrongs and indignant at the infults offered his Country, the high-fpirited Caflius exhibits an heroic example z-"Refolved as we are", (replied the hero to his friend)" refolved as we are, let us "‘ march againit the enemy, for t/Jo' we flaw/d not "‘ fuzzy/(er, we bane not/Jing to fear * SPIRITS and GENII, like thefe, rofe in Rome-and have fince adorned Britain :fuch alfowill one da make glorious this more Weflern world. AMERIC A hath in {tore her BRUTI and CAssu-her Hamp dens and Sydneys-Patriots and Heroes, who will form a BAND or BROTHERS :-men who will have memories and feelings-courage and {wor dsz- courage, that (ball inflame their ardent bofoms, till their hands cleave to their {words-and their swoans to their Enemies hearts. * Plut. Life of Brutus. FINIS. C The Author hasfelt exqufitcly while writing upon the fubjcfls of his Confid eration ; and the multitude and perplexity vate bulinefs have denied him fufhcient time to revife of his prithis publiCation. Under theft: circumihnces, (and being alfo fevera l years on this fide the meridian of the age of man) there will he found, no doubt, many indifcretions and faults for thofe ofrz'per years and coolerjudgment to correct} and cenfure. l‘he great Chan. Bacon hath told us of "wife [egg/later: who have made Lord their law upon rhefpur (fr/re occaflan :---a good citizen, deepl y prickcd ‘byr/chfmr oft/i: tinm, is very apt to {tart With an over~hafiy fp::1.--- [‘he only excufc of the writer is ;- thxit as he at firfi afl'umetl his pen frm the impulfes of his Cmfc/mce, fo he now piiblifl ifs his fcntimmts from a feni‘e of duty to GOD and Country- UU his |