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Excerpt from The Influence of Liberty, Taste: Ages of Augustus and Louis XIV
The opinion that refinement and elegance will probably be more studied and improved among the subjects of an absolute, than among citizens of a free, government, seems to have arisen from a partial observation of the condition of Taste in the French Monarchy of that time, and of what happened in Rome when Octavius made himself master of her liberties and of the world.
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