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 pore, this imperial animal exclaims; ye ſervile creatures, why do ye lament? why vainly try by cries akin to the voice of human woe my compaſſion to excite? Created ſolely for my uſe, ſubmit without a murmur to the decrees of heaven, and to the mandates of me; of me the heaven-deputed deſpot of every creature that walks, or creeps, or ſwims, or flies in air, on earth, or in the waters which encompaſs the earth. Thus the fate of the animal world has followed the progreſs of man from Rh