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ΕΠΕΑ ΠΤΕΡΟΕΝΤΑ,

OR THE

DIVERSIONS OF PURLEY.

PART II.

CHAPTER I.

RIGHTS OF MAN.

F.

-BUT your Dialogue, and your Politics, and your

bitter Notes

H.

Cantantes, my dear Burdett, minus via lædit.

F.

Cantantes, if you please; but bawling out the Rights of Man, they say, is not singing.

H.

To the ears of man, what music sweeter than the Rights of man?

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Cantantes, my dear Burdett, minus via lædit.

F.

Cantantes, if you please; but bawling out the Rights of Man, they say, is not singing.

H.

To the ears of man, what music sweeter than the Rights of man?

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F.

Yes. Such music as the whistling of the wind before a tempest. You very well know what these gentlemen think of it. You cannot have forgotten

"Sir, Whenever I hear of the word RIGHTS, I have learned to consider it as preparatory to some desolating doctrine. It seems to me, to be productive of some wide spreading ruin, of some wasting desolation."-Canning's Speech.

And do you not remember the enthusiasm with which these sentiments were applauded by the House, and the splendid rewards which immediately followed this declaration? For no other earthly merit in the speaker that Edipus himself could have discovered.

H.

It is never to be forgotten. Pity their ignorance.

Punish their wickedness.

F.

H.

We shall never, I believe, differ much in our actions, wishes or opinions. I too say with you-Punish the wickedness of those mercenaries who utter such atrocities: and do you, with me, pity the ignorance and folly of those regular governments who reward them: and who do not see that a claim of RIGHTS by their people, so far from treason or sedition, is the strongest avowal they can make of their subjection: and that nothing can more evidently shew the natural disposition of mankind to rational obedience, than their invariable use of this word RIGHT, and their perpetual application of it to all which they desire, and to every thing which they deem excellent.

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