The Eighth Commandment (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Eighth Commandment Justice is the queen of the virtues, and the durable policy of men and nations. To urge on behalf of justice, that, in literary commerce, and in all other trades and transactions, she pays best in the long run, is to lower her; for if she did not pay at all, our arms ought to fly open to her, so good and beautiful a thing she is. Unluckily I have to plead for her, not to angels, but to members of Parliament. Now these are mixed men, and must be handled accordingly. Some of them can rise to noble sentiments; others can rise, with a little shove from the feathered lever, to longsighted views of national interest; and others can rise to nothing; they represent a large constituency. Those two classes in Parliament and the nation will now be invited to cleanse the country of an unwise iniquity. Should the appeal fail, I shall have to go on blushing for the people I was born among. Still I consent to fail, if I cannot convince my men of honour that the act in question is unjust and perfidious, and my men of sense that it is shallow, unstatesman like, and impolitic. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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