aud the consequence wasa state of top-heaviness, which, when existing in the social column,exposes base and capital—but especially the latter—to extreme danger.Money had been acquired by some, who did not know its use ; and itsabuse was the inevitable result; for the improper employment of… … * P. Cornelius Scipio gave no better answer than this to a charge of having embezzleda sum amounting to 36,000Z. sterling. CHAP. XX.] STATE OF MANNEKS. 205 Grecian craftsmen. The pleasures of the table were carried to agluttonous excess; and a slave who, in the capacity of a cook, could setbefore…
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