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tween them, he has got the redding stroke. -Those 
that would have been squabbling he has united; 
and whatever they may think of each other, they 
all know for certain, that he is an officious intruder, 
who had no businefs among them; and therefore 
they have given him a bloody nose, and sent him 
_a-packing, that they may have time to fight each 
other fairly. They have done just as they fhould 
have done; for who can deny that whether the 
wife or the hufband is to rule the roast, no person 
has a right to come into their house and intermeddle 
in their affairs under any pretext whatever? If Ca- 
tharine the imperious, had met with such a reception 
in Poland, it would have been fortunate for more par- 
ties than one; for in that case the confused dreams 
of glory and conquest, arising from the fumes of va~ 
nity, might have been dispelled before they reached 
the vacant brain of his Prufsian majesty ; and he 
might have begun to perceive, that by leaving an 
empty house behind him, there might arise some 
danger of its being filled with unwelcome guests be- 
fore his return. He might thus have perceived, 
before it was too late, that charity begins at home ; 
that the eye of a master makes a fat horse; and 
that it would be-as well to encourage peaceful arts 
in his own dominions, as to go a-crusading against 
_ those who had never offended him, in favour of 
those who never would have served him, even if 
they could. But these, though obvious considera- 
tions to some others, did not come within the compafs 
of the sensorium of the great Frederic, the mighty 
_ monarch of Prufsia, and third of that name. 
