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Fallitur, egregio quisquis sub principe credit Servitium, nunquam libertas gratior extat Quam sub rege pio. On Johnson's character, as a political writer, we cannot dwell with pleasure, since we cannot speak of it with praise.
If such people could retain their physical superiority and their courage, and combine them with our acquirements, they would surpass us in every way, Extat ut in mediis turris aprica casis. They would be, in comparison with us, as a giant to a dwarf, a mountain to a hill: Quantus Eryx, et quantus Athos, gaudetque nivali Vertice se attollens pater Apenninus ad auras.
This gracious declaration was ready for the press at the time of the king's death, and if he had lived to issue it, there can be little doubt how it would have been received at a time when "nunquam libertas gratior extat Quam sub rege pio," was the theme of every song, and, by the help of some perversion of Scripture, the text of every sermon.
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