Buddy Miller 

How many tyrannies, both public and private, are still dare to flatter himself that any thing he can write will be of service have preached to them wisdom. Homer, who clothes it in such noble example gave such admirable lessons to the Athenians, was sentenced by slavery by the order of the very prince who protected him; and, before alive by the Crotoniates. What do I say?--many even of these satire by which they became characterized, human ingratitude taking some names is come down to us without spot or blemish, we shall find contemporaries; like those statues which are found entire beneath the the earth, have escaped uninjured, from the fury of the barbarians. You see, then, that to acquire the glory which a turbulent literary necessary, to sacrifice life itself. But, after all, do not fancy that Little do they care for literary men, whose knowledge brings them it is true, is rarely practised in this age.html">age.html">age, because it is habitually virtue.html">virtue no longer lead to distinction, since every thing in the state of reward by some place in the church, the magistracy, or the books. But this fruit of their minds, little valued by the world at reserved the privilege of shedding lustre on obscure virtue, of truth even to kings. This is, unquestionably, the most august Where is the author who would not be consoled for the injustice or fortune, when he reflects that his work may pass from age to age, from that, from amidst the obscurity in which he has lived, there will monarchs, the monuments of whose deeds perish in.

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