Narrative of an Excursion From Corfu to Smyrna —— Comprising a Progress Through Albania and the North of Greece; With Some Account of Athens, Descriptive of the Ancient and Present State of That City, to Which Is Annexed, a Translation of the Erastae of Plato

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ISBN: 9781330036785 出版年：2016 页码：288 Forgotten Books

The cause of the Greeks, as hitherto conducted by many of their chosen champions, discovers, on one side, much of sordid avarice, credulity, and self-delusion,-opposed, on the other,.to grasping rapacity, gross fraud, and affected philanthropy. With such agents, no cause can ever hope to tri umph. The.moral government of the world pro ceeds on principles. Which obey no impulse but that of virtue: its laws, as unerring as those by which the material elements are adjusted, can never be disregarded or displaced, without leading to confusion and peril. It is to other sources, then.