Date: 1763, 1765; 1766
""Soon will the reign of Hope and Fear be o'er, / And warring passions militate no more."
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Date: 1763
"Unwilling to condemn, thy soul disdains / To wear vile faction's arbitrary chains."
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Date: 1764
'In spring eternal, lay a plain / Where our brave fathers used to train / Their sons to arms, to teach the art / Of war, and steel the infant heart."
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Date: 1764
"Beyond this to awake our zeal, / To quicken our resolves, and steel / Our steady souls to bloody bent,"
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Date: 1764
Brave rage, a "grand master passion," may flame out for country
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Date: 1764
"Mindful of that high rank in which I stand, / Of millions lord, sole ruler in the land, / Let me, and Reason shall her aid afford, / Rule my own spirit, of myself be lord."
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Date: 1764
Philosophy may overturn Reason's throne and strive "proudly in its place to plant her own"
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Date: 1764
Philosophy may be undermined, her empire thrown down, "By means of sense, from whom she holds the crown"
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