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Show PENALTIES OF GREAT PLACE. Thrice Servants Those Who Have Risen to High Estate. Men In great placo aro thrlco servantsservants ser-vantsservants of iho sovoroign or stato, servants, of fame, nnd sorvants of business; so as they havo no freedom free-dom nelthor in tholr persons, nor In their actions, nor In tholr times. It Is a strango doslro toseok powor, and to loso liberty, or to sock power ovor others and to loso powor ovor a man's solf. Tho rising unto placo Is laborious, labori-ous, and by pains mon como to groator pains, and it Is sometimes baso and by Indlgnltlos men como to dignities. Tho standing is sllppory and tho ro-grot ro-grot Is olthor a downfall or nt least an eclipse, which is a molancholy thing. "Cum non sis qui fueris, non esBO cur volla vivcro." (Since you aro not what you woro, thoro Is no reason why you should wish to llvo.) Nay, rotlro mon ennnot when thoy would, nelthor will thoy when it wero reason; but aro Itnpatlont of prlvnto-ness prlvnto-ness oven In ago and sickness which requires tho shadow; lko old townsmen, towns-men, that will bo still sitting at their street door, though thereby thoy offor ago to scorn. From Lord Dacon's Essay, "Of Great Placo." |
