Excerpt from The Groans of Britons at the Gloomy Prospect of the Present Precarious State of Their Liberties and Properties, Compared With What It Has Been: Illustrated With Various Examples, From Antient and Modern History of Free Nations Becoming Slaves From the Effects of Avarice, the Horrid Vice to Which We Owe All Our Present Calamities

The Unlearn'd will naturally fuppofe, that a People fo extrem'elyfj alous of Liberty, as the Ramam were, could lofe it only by Con quel't but, the Learned know, that the Lofs, tho inefi'irpahle, was' volfijntar'y? This is aflo'nifhing; but yet it is true. The Ro mans themfelves were folely the Authors of their own Misfortunes. Before they conquer'd Afia they were Virtuous and main'fd Virtuous t the richlspoils'ofith'e E uxurious; aridwit'hi Luxury fie'nter' ee, which fdon' vanqtiilhd thef ' Vahq'uifhiers ' of the World. L: V.

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