"But the Truth is, this unnatural Power corrupts both the Heart, and the Understanding. And to prevent the least Hope of Amendment, a King is ever surrounded by a Crowd of infamous Flatterers, who find their Account in keeping him from the least Light of Reason, till all Ideas of Rectitude and Justice are utterly erased from his Mind."
A Vindication of Natural Society
5 entries in ESTC (1756, 1757, 1766, 1780, 1796).<br>
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See <u>A Vindication of Natural Society: or, a View of the Miseries and Evils Arising to Mankind from Every Species of Artificial Society. In a Letter to Lord **** by a Late Noble Writer.</u> (London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1756). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004807794.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;