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Such are thy foes, Napoleon, when Time

Wakes Vengeance, sure concomitant of Crime.

---Fix'd, like Prometheus, to thy rock, o'erpowered
By force, by vulture-conscience slow devoured;
With godlike power, but fiendlike rage, no more
To drench the world-thy reeking stage--in gore
Fit but o'er Shame to triumph, and to rule;
And prov'd in all things---but in danger---cool,
That found'st a Nation melted to thy will,

And Freedom's place didst with thine image fill;
Skill'd not to govern, but obey the storm,

To catch the tame occasion, not to form;

Victorious only when success pursued,

But when thou follow'd'st her, as quick subdued;

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The first to challenge, as the first to run;

Whom Death and Glory both consent to shun--

Live! that thy body and thy soul may be

Foes that can't part, and friends that can't agree--

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Live! to be number'd with that common herd.

Who life's base boon unto themselves preferr'd
Live! till each dazzled fool hath understood

That nothing can be great, that is not good.

And when Remorse, for blood in torrents spilt,
Shall sting--to madness---conscious, sleepless Guilt,
May deep Contrition this black hope repel,---
---Snatch me, thou Future, from this Present Hell!

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Give me the mind that, bent on highest aim,
Deems Virtue's rugged path, sole path to Fame;
Great things with small compares, in scale sublime,
And Death with Life! Eternity with Time!

Man's whole existence weighs, sifts nature's laws,
And views results in th' embryo of their cause;
Prepar'd to meet, with corresponding deeds,

Events, as yet imprison'd in their seeds;

Kens in his acorn hid, the King of Trees,

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And Freedom's germ in foul Oppression secs;

Precedes the march of Time---to ponder fate.

And execute, whle others meditate;

That, deaf to present praise, the servile knee Rebukes, and says to Glory-Follow me!

THE END.

INDEX, &c.

Note The Figures refer not to the Page, but to the Articles

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[Death, 110.

Diogenes, why he used a lanthorn, 11
Disorders, 118.
Diamond, 134.

Delight, its cause, 143.
Doubt, 146.
Duels, 161.

Death, a wonder, 186.
Devil and trustees, 195.
Deception, a double one, 240,
Dotage, 267.

Experience neglected, 25.
Evil parturescent, 60.

Education of the lower orders, 87,
Epigram, 103.

Effects and causes, 147.

England's four powers, 155

Education, female, 175.

Early impressions, 203.

Extemporaneous harangues, 225.

Coxcombs, grateful when, Preface, Excellence, 258.

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Enemies, how to get them, 275.
Flattery, 72.

Flattery, cunning, 75.

Fame posthumous, 105.
Fortune a goddess, 106.
Fame a small fountain, 124.
Fools and Rogues, 156.
Free press, 179.

Fashion its miseries, 187.
Flattery, 198.

French Revolution, 211.
Flat catchers, 245.
Forms of Liberty, 268.
Foreknowledge, 280.
Free agency, 280.

Great men seldom pitied-why, il
Gossipers, 78.

Great minds, 112.

Gibbon, a mistake of his, 123

Dunces, how to manage them, 19. Genius, 133.

Death, 68,

Diplomacy, 69.

Grandfathers and grandmothers, 144.
'Ghosts, 202.

Gold-making an art not desire-(Public opinion, 58.

able, 242.

Happiness, 109.

Hope, 114.

Hatred, a cause of it, 127.

Health, why not envied, 232.
Human ignorance, 281.

Idleness, 49.

Independence, 59.

Immortality of the soul, 62.
Integrity, 140.
Jurisprudence, civil, 24.

Knavery a mistake about it, 57.
Law and Lawyers, 24.
Learning and Wisdom, 26.
Love, how to make it, 89.
Love, a volcano, 97.

Love, its power, 125.

Leyden Dr. an ode of his, 133.

Light the best reformer, 168.
Ladies, 205.

Learned Dunces, 213.

Priest and Physician, 79.
Philosophers, when fools, choice ones,

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Lawyer, good excuse for a roguish Style, 34.

one, 246.

Memory, 29.

Marriage, a feast, 47.

Mistake, two common ones, 92.
Mystery, 94.

Mythology, antient, 100.

Mysteries, matters of faith, 103.
Middle classes 104.

Men in masses, 126.
Men, who most proper, 128.
Man a dogmatizing animal, 163.
Mal-government, 184.
Metaphysicians, 212.
Morality, 235.

Revolutions, 276.

Saints, 18.

Speeches, written, 22.

Self-knowledge, 54.

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Magnanimity, 274.

Nonsense puffed, 51.

Necessary things, 116.

Nobility, 120.

it, 178.

Threats, 220.

Unity of opinion, 121.

Vanity differs from Pride, 66.

Nations free only when they deserve Vanity a consolatory thing, 82.

Nobility, 272.

Opinions of the learned, 48.

Observation of Paschals, 61.
Oratory, 167.

Originality, 243.

Voice of the People, 265.

Works of merit not popular, when, 7.

Women, what they never pardon, 23.
Wealth and Talent, 46.

Women Eastern, 96.

Posterity, what has it done for Wealth, 152.

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