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How aptly does Horace's description of the young man apply to the people! Imberbis juvenis, tandem custode remoto Gaudet equis, canibusque et aprici gramine campi; Cereus in vitium flecti, monitoribus asper, Utilium tardus provisor, prodigus æris, Sublimis, cupidusque et amata relinquere pernix.
Si ergo aliqualiter inueniri possit differentia in proximo, quanto maior sit distantia, tanto maior differentia aestimandi est in remoto, vel in remotiori, seu remotissimo loco.
XV. Namque absentia legati remoto metu, Britanni agitare inter se mala servitutis, conferre injurias et interpretando accendere: nihil profici patientia, nisi ut graviora, tanquam ex facili toleratibus, imperentur: singulos sibi olim reges fuisse, nunc binos imponi: e quibus legatus in sanguinem, procurator in bona saeviret.
'Imberbus juvenis, tandem custode remoto, Gaudet equis canibusque, et aprici gramine campi. 'The youth, whose will no froward tutor bounds, Joys in the sunny field, his horse and hounds. FRANCIS. Horace, Ars Poet. 1. 161. Henry VI, act i. sc. 2. See ante, i. 468, and iii. 306.
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