The Tale of Chloe, Chapter 4

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌‌‌​​‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​‌‌‌​​​​​⁠It was an axiom with Mr. Beamish, our first, if not our only philosophical beau and a gentleman of some thoughtfulness, that the social English require tyrannical government as much as the political are able to dispense with it: and this he explained by an exposition of the character of a race possessed of the eminent virtue of individual self-assertion, which causes them to insist on good elbowro