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may expofe their ignorance and ftiipidity, they 

 ]iave aftually made themfelves mafters of the fined 

 provinces of Afîa, of Africa, of Europe, nay, of 

 the Empire of the Greeks themfelves, with ail their 

 wit and learning, becaufe the fentiment of pa- 

 triotifm which unites them, is fufficient to baffle 

 all the talents and all the tacflics in the world. 

 They have undergone, however, frequent convul- 

 fions from the revolting of the conquered Na- 

 tions ; but the mod dangerous proceed from their 

 feebleft adverfaries, from thofe very Greeks, whofe 

 property they plunder with impunity, and whofe 

 children they annually carry off, as a tribute to 

 recruit the Seraglio. From thefe fame children 

 iffue, by a re-ading Providence, mod of the Ja- 

 nizaries, the Agas, the Pachas, the Bafhaws, the 

 Viziers, which opprefs the Turks, in their turn, 

 and render themfelves formidable even to theiu 

 Sultans. 



It is this fame community of hopes and of for- 

 tunes prefented, without didinftion, to all condi- 

 tions of men, which has given io much energy to 

 Pruffia, whofe internal police, and viftories abroad, 

 have been fo highly celebrated by our poHticai 

 Writers ; though it's Government is dill more de- 

 fpotic than that of Turkey ; for the Prince there 

 is abfolute mader at once in temporals and in fpi- 

 rituals. 



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