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AND LOWER EGYPT. I2Q
heart of whoever dared to abuse authority, to op-
press or betray a nation of men, of whose power
it would be at the same time an eternal em-
blem *.
* Here the cloven foot is completely uncovered. A prin-
ciple is avowed, from which justice turns away her face, and at
which humanity shudders. Gracious Heaven ! what right has
France to plunder Rome of her pictures and statues, and Egypt
of her columns? The right which our author himself, a little
ago, execrated in the bitterest terms; the right of the stronger
to oppress the weaker, the right of the tiger to tear the lamb.
Thus Paris is to be enriched and embellished at the expense of
all the nations of the globe, and the sacred name of liberty is
vilely prostituted to abet democratic tyranny. Ex uno disce cm-
nes. It is the interest of all mankind surely, to resist a principle
so abominable, and to unite in crushing every attempt to reduce
it to practice.—H. H.
Hoi. 1,
heart of whoever dared to abuse authority, to op-
press or betray a nation of men, of whose power
it would be at the same time an eternal em-
blem *.
* Here the cloven foot is completely uncovered. A prin-
ciple is avowed, from which justice turns away her face, and at
which humanity shudders. Gracious Heaven ! what right has
France to plunder Rome of her pictures and statues, and Egypt
of her columns? The right which our author himself, a little
ago, execrated in the bitterest terms; the right of the stronger
to oppress the weaker, the right of the tiger to tear the lamb.
Thus Paris is to be enriched and embellished at the expense of
all the nations of the globe, and the sacred name of liberty is
vilely prostituted to abet democratic tyranny. Ex uno disce cm-
nes. It is the interest of all mankind surely, to resist a principle
so abominable, and to unite in crushing every attempt to reduce
it to practice.—H. H.
Hoi. 1,