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Chap. V.
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How awkwardly is the dignified gravity of the original imitated, in the following heavy, formal, and insipid version.
"Now as to me these calamities appear extremely shocking and deplorable; therefore I am extremely keen and rigorous in punishing those who endeavoured to bring them about. For let me put the case, that a master of a family had his children butchered, his wife murdered, his house burnt down by a slave, yet did not inflict the most rigorous of punishments imaginable upon that slave: would such a master"appear
