Excerpt from Whig and No Whig: A Political Paradox
That which I once respected as virtue, I now contemn as practice; that which I honoured as proceeding from the heart, I despise as dependant on the muscles. That friendship which I should once have looked up to, loses with me every atom of it"s consequence, when I see it prostituted to those whose characters I have taught myself to hold in contempt - a contempt which his connection with them has dexterously qualified him to participate.
Charles. Contempt! - Suppose the man was to hear this, and ask you this pithy question - "Pray, Sir, who are you?"
William. I should answer proudly - "I am the son of an English yeoman. My father has a freehold of forty shillings a year in Norfolk, and rents an hundred acres of land -
"A citizen of Rome, when Rome surviv"d,
Would not, &c. -"
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