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An Essay on War, in Blank Verse; Honington Green, a Ballad; the Culprit, an Elegy; and Other Poems, on Various Subjects

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Bad as this would be, it would be well if they made not War on Motives less naturally urgent than these: "glandem atque ambilia propter." It is worse to make Wars of Heroical, still worse of Ministerial, and worst of all of Commercial Speculation. C.L.

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