Note 009
II est certain que les grands mangeurs de viande sont en
general cruels et feroces plus que les autres hommes. Cette
observation est de tous les lieux, et de tous les tems: la
barbarie Angloise est connue, etc. Emile de Rousseau, tom.,
p. 274. Whatever we may think of the general observation, we
shall not easily allow the truth of his example. The
good-natured complaints of Plutarch, and the pathetic
lamentations of Ovid, seduce our reason by exciting our
sensibility.
The History Of The Decline and Fall
Of The Roman Empire—
Chapter 26