The battle on the Bosphorus, Volume 2; Volume 34 |
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Page 309 - STATE. 109 of moral instinct, every accredited maxim of social duty, so debased and subjugated to the baneful yoke of an assumed Political expediency. The Statutes of the Venetian Inquisition of State, now exposed to the general eye, exceed every other product of human wickedness, in premeditated, deliberate, systematic, unmixed, undissembled flagitiousness.
Page 308 - ... this most atrocious court, will evince the due value which may be placed on the above panegyric. These decrees are the only ordinances reduced to writing in which a legislative body has ever dared to erect a code upon the avowed basis of perfidy and assassination. Never yet did the principle of ill establish so free a traffic for the interchange of crime, so unrestricted a mart in which mankind might barter their iniquity ; never was the committal of certain and irremediable evil so fully authorized...