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 it. To pardon a pirate may be injurious to mankind; but how much greater is the crime of opening a port in which all pirates hall be afe? The contraband trader is not more worthy of protection: if with Narborough he trades by force, he is a pirate; if he trades ecretly, he is only a thief. Thoe who honetly refue his traffick he hates as obtructors of his profit; and thoe with whom he deals he cheats, becaue he knows that they dare not complain. He lives with a heart full of that malignity which fear of detection always generates in thoe who are to defend unjut acquiitions againt lawful authority; and when he comes home with riches thus acquired, he brings a mind hardened in evil, too proud for reproof, and too tupid for reflection; he offends the high by his inolence, and corrupts the low by his example.

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