Astell writes the following: Patience and submission are the only comforts that are left to a poor people who groan under tyranny unless they are strong enough to break the yoke.

阿斯苔写道：,“坚忍与顺从是可怜的人儿仅有的慰籍,她们在暴行面前只能低声抽泣,除非她们有力量挣脱羁绊。

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Satan finds it ignominious and shameful to lower himself to God, to bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee and deify His power, but this kind of submission is shameful not because it's simply always shameful so to debase oneself.

撒旦认为对上帝放低身段，屈膝承欢，并认可他的力量实在是可耻的，但是这种屈从之所以是耻辱,并非是因为通常身段被贬低时会感到耻辱。

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