[312]: Discours du général Stanhope, un des managers.
[313]: The rights of the greatest and of the meanest subjects now stand upon the same foundation,—the security of law common to all.... When the people had lost their rights, those of the peerage would soon become insignificant. (Discours de lord Chatam, affaire de Wilkes.)
[314]: Évaluation de De Foe.
[315]: Their eating, indeed, amazes me; had I five hundred heads, and were each head furnished with brains, yet would they all be insufficient to compute the number of cows, pigs, geese, and turkies, which upon this occasion die for the good of their country!...
On the contrary, they seem to lose their temper as they lose their appetites; every morsel they swallow, and every glass they pour down, serves to increase their animosity.—Many an honest man, before as harmless as a tame rabbit, when loaded with a single election dinner, has become more dangerous than a charged culverin.
The mob meet upon the debate; fight themselves sober; and then draw off to get drunk again, and charge for another encounter. (Goldsmith.) Voyez aussi Hogarth.
[316]: Smollett, Peregrine Pickle, ch. 40.
[317]: Hogarth.
Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state;
With daring aims irregularly great.
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of human kind pass by;
Intent on high designs, a thoughtful band,
By forms unfashioned, fresh from nature's hand;
Fierce in their native hardiness of soul,
True to imagined right, above control,
While even the peasant boasts these rights to scan,
And learns to venerate himself a man.