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use what is generally said of Free Governments, that they nourish and form great Genius's is true? especially, since almost all the Famous Orators that ever flourish'd and liv'd died with them? Indeed, can there be anything that raises the Souls of Great Men more than Liberty; any thing which can more powerfully excite and awaken in us that Sentiment of Nature which provokes us to Emulation, and the glorious desire of seeing our selves advanc'd above others? Add to this, that the Rewards propos'd in such Governments, whet and perfectly Polish the Orators Wit and make 'em cultivate the Talents Nature has given them; insomuch, that we see the Liberty of their Country shine in their Orations._ He goes on, _but as for us, who were early taught to endure the Yoke of Domination, and have been, as it were, wrapt up in the Customs and Ways of Arbitrary Rule; who in a Word, never tasted that living and Flowing Spring of Eloquence and Liberty; we commonly, instead of Orators, become pompous Flatterers, for which reason, I believe a Man Born in Servitude, may be capable of other Sciencies, but no Slave can ever be an Orator, since when the Mind is depress'd and broken by Slavery, it will never dare to think, or say any thing bold. All its Vigour evaporates of it self, and it remains always as in Bonds; in short, to make use of +Homer+'s Expression._ _The Day that makes a Free Born Man a Slave,_ _Robs him of half his Vertue._ It is observable, that _Boileau_ has no manner of remark on all this Passage; it wou'd not have agreed with his Pension, from his Master the _French_ King, to have said a Word in praise of it, nor with his Conscience to have condemn'd it; but _Dacier_, who had a _Hugonot_ Education, observes speaking of Liberty, shining in the Orations of Orators living in Free States, that as those _Men are their own Masters, their Mind us'd to this Independence, produces nothing but what has the Marks of that Liberty, which is the Principal Aim of all their Actions._ Now what a Friend the Letter writer, is to Liberty, we may see in the _Examiner_ of the 26th of _April_, 1711, which, tho', it may be he did not Write himself, whatever some People say to the contrary, he and his Party have sufficiently own'd to make them accountable for every Word in that and the rest of them. The reason why _Publick Injuries are so seldom redress'd is for want of Arbitrary Power_, he calls it _Discretionary_; 'tis true, and if I hav
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