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The success of Solon is well summed up in the following brief tribute to his virtues and genius, by the poet THOMSON: He built his commonweal On equity's wide base: by tender laws A lively people curbing, yet undamped; Preserving still that quick, peculiar fire, Whence in the laurelled field of finer arts And of bold freedom they unequalled shone, The pride of smiling Greece, and of mankind.
"In equity's high court there are Two sad extremes, 'tis clear; Excessive slowness strikes us there, Excessive quickness here. "Their source, 'twixt good and evil, brings A difficulty nice; The first from Eldon's virtue, springs, The latter from his vice."
Forest and farm-bred, college-bred, city-fostered and broadened and hardened. A man of the world, with experiences, and in his quality, no doubt, the logical, inevitable result of such experiences one with a conscience flexile and seeking, but hard as rock when once satisfied. One who never, intentionally, injured a human being, save for equity's sake.
As the swift spirit flies, stern Equity's envoy, So, when the king says, 'Go, down rusheth he in joy, With vengeful thunderbolt red ruin doth complete, Then tranquilly returns to lay it at his feet." In 1690 and in 1691 he had gained distinction as well as in 1688.
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