But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves,/ Yet scatters evil with as large a hand?[Written after an earthquake in Lisbon killed over 15,000 people]
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
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It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
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