Essays By Father Fitz Eustace a Mendicant Friar Pseud
Essays By Father Fitz Eustace a Mendicant Friar Pseud
W Fraser
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Instead of slaughter and massacre, iniquitous judgments were pronounced, which prolonged the period of life, in order to let the victim feel what punishments and torments tyranny could inflict. The court was governed and directed in every thing by artifice : all was whispered or insinuated, — nothing was done in the open face of day. The emperors themselves were immersed in pleasure, sunk in softness and voluptuousness, and fond of every indulgence. They became more accessible to sycophants and... flatterers, — more alive to the charms of beauty, — more secluded in their palaces, — and more indifferent to matters of state. Their ears were open to every tale, which slander could utter, or malice invent. Attacks were made against the characters of men of the highest reputation, and the ablest civil and military officers found them- selves exposed to the mercy of men, who were incapable of serving the state themselves, and did not possess the disposition of allowing others 118 ON THE DOWNFAL OT to do it with any degree of credit or satisfac- tion*.
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