There is a beauty and a harmony in the manner in which the social machine rolls on its course, under such a system, that should secure men's applause! Justice administers to the wants of society, and checks the passions with a force as silent and dignified, as if her decrees came from a higher volition.

I often compare the quiet march of the state, contrasted with the troubled movements of some other of our Italian sisters, to the difference between the clatter of a clamorous town, and the stillness of our own noiseless canals.

Then the uprightness of the late decree is in the mouths of the masquers to-night ?" "Signore, the Venetians are bold when there is an opportunity to praise their masters." "Dost thou think thus, Jacopo?
To me, they have ever seemed more prone to vent their seditious discontent.

But 'tis the nature of man to be niggardly of praise and lavish of censure.

This decree of the tribunal must not be suffered to die, with the mere justice of the case.