It is an undeniable privilege of every man to prove himself right in the thesis that the world is his enemy; for if he reiterates it frequently enough and makes it the background of his conduct he is bound eventually to be right.
Bio: James Bramston, satirist, educated at Westminster School and Oxford, took orders and was later Vicar of Harting. His poems are The Art of Politics, in imitation of Horace, and The Man of Taste, in imitation of Alexander Pope.
