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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: tended for the crown of Ifrael, or of four hundred thoir- fand who fell in one battle, between Joafh and Amaxiah, on the fame occafion-; what jakes were capacious enough to contain the carcafes of thofe that pcrifhed in the quarrels between the fucceffors of Alexander; the feveral competitors for the Roman empire; or thofc which have happened in France, Spain, England, and other places upon the like occafions: If Sylla for fome time ated as an afofolute monarch, it is no wonder that he died like one, or that God punifhed him as Herod, Philip the Second of Spain, and fomc others, bccaufc the hand of his fellow-citizens had unjuftly fpared him. If, when he was become dcteftable to God and man, he became alfo mifcrable, his example ought to deter others from the crimes, that are avenged by a power which none can cfcapc, and to encourage thofe who defend, or endeavour to recover, their violated liberties, to a6t vigorouily in. a caufc, that God docs evidently patronize. SECT. XXV. Courts art more fiibjefl to venality tint] corruption than- popular governments. THOUGH court-flatterers impute many evils to popular governments they no-way dcfcrvc, I could not think any fo impudent as to lay corruption and venality to their charge, till I found it in our author. They might in my opinion have taken thofe faults upon thcmfelves, fiiiec they certainly abound moft where bawds, whores, buffoons, buffoons, players, flaves, and other bafe people, who are naturally mercenary, are moft prevalent. And whofo- tver would know whether this does more frequently befal commonwealths than monarchies, efpccially if they are abfolute, need only to inquire, whether the Cornelii, Junii, Fabii, Valerii, Quintii, Curii, Fabritii, and others, who moft prevailed in Rome after the expulfion of the ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217233361 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217233368 |
| Weight | 0.84 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 In |
| List Price | $29.78 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 256 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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