It is not generally so.
[95] Sit igitur hoc ab initio persuasum civibus, dominos esse omnium
rerum ac moderatores deos; eaque, quae gerantur, eorum geri vi, ditione,
ac numine; eosdemque optime de genere hominum mereri; et qualis quisque
sit, quid agat, quid in se admittat, qua mente, qua pietate colat
religiones intueri: piorum et impiorum habere rationem. His enim rebus
imbutae mentes haud sane abhorrebunt ab utili et a vera sententia.--Cic.
de Legibus, l. 2.
[96] Quicquid multis peccatur inultum.
[97] This (down to the end of the first sentence in the next paragraph)
and some other parts, here and there, were inserted, on his reading the
manuscript, by my lost son.
[98] I do not choose to shock the feeling of the moral reader with any
quotation of their vulgar, base, and profane language.
[99] Their connection with Turgot and almost all the people of the
finance.
[100] All have been confiscated in their turn.
[101] Not his brother, nor any near relation; but this mistake does not
affect the argument.
[102] The rest of the passage is this:--
"Who, having spent the treasures of his crown,
Condemns their luxury to feed his own.
And yet this act, to varnish o'er the shame
Of sacrilege, must bear Devotion's name.
No crime so bold, but would be understood
A Real, or at least a seeming good.
Who fears not to do ill, yet fears the name,
And free from conscience, is a slave to fame.
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