An Address to Demetrianus
Cyprian of Carthage
Section 8
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8. You complain that the fountains are now less plentiful to
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An Address to Demetrianus
Cyprian of Carthage
8. You complain that the fountains are now less plentiful to
Some read, “But you do not serve God, by whom all things are ordained to your service; you do not wait upon Him,” etc.
[“Æquali jure et pari lege.” This would have furnished ground for Jefferson’s famous sentence in the American Declaration of Independence. See also Franklin’s sentiment, vol. i. p. 552, note 9. There is a very remarkable passage in Massillon which might have engendered the French Revolution had it been known to the people. See Petit Carême, On Palm Sunday, p. 189, etc., ed. 1745.]
Some add, “over man.”