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much more terrible. One man is bent on fubju- 

 gating another, not fo much for the fake of get- 

 ting hold of his property, as to command his ad- 

 miration, his reverence. Ambition propofes to it- 

 felf no boundary fhort of this. To whatever con- 

 dition he may be elevated, and hov/ever low his 

 rival reduced ; let him have at his mercy the for- 

 tune, the labour, the wife, the perfon, of his ad- 

 verfary, he has gained no point, unlefs he has 

 gained his homage. It availed Haman nothing to 

 have the life, the goods, of the Jews, at his difpo- 

 fal : he muft fee Mordecai proflrated at his feet. 

 Oppreflbrs are thus the opprefled, and become the 

 arbiters of their own happinefs ; and the opprefTed, 

 for the mofl part, paying them back injuftice for 

 injuftice, difturb them with falfe reports, religious 

 terrors, dark furmifes, calumnies, which engender 

 among them, fufpicions, apprehenfions, jealouiîes, 

 feuds, law-fuits, duels; and, at laft, civil wars, 

 which iflue in their total deftruftion. 



Let us examine, in the cafe of fomc ancient 

 and modern Governments, this re-adion of evils 

 upon each other, and we fhall find it's extent to 

 be in proportion to the ills which they bring upon 

 Mankind. On contemplating this tremendous 

 balance, we fliall be conftrained to acknowledge 

 the exiftence of Sovereign Juftice. 



Without 



