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Plutarch's,* ' A civil war is worse than an irre- 

 gular monarchy;' and Tacitus, | ' The humours 

 of kings are to be tolerated, nor is it useful to 

 change them: whilst there are men, there will 

 be vices. The miscarriages of a prince may be 

 great, but the virtues of his successor may be 

 greater:' and Seneca,J'He is unfortunately sick, 

 that is more in danger of his physician, than of 

 his disease.' Poise the miseries of a civil war, 

 with the grievances of an unjust magistrate, and 

 the politician must make many grains of allow- 

 ance from fallacy to make the scales even. For 

 though the fury of incensed tyranny may fall 

 heavy upon many particulars, yet the bloody 

 consequences of an intestine sword are more 

 epidemical and more permanent. 



As to the charging the faults of a governor 

 upon the government itself, I see nothing in it 

 but delusion, nor can there be a more gross 

 abuse, than to make the office guilty of the 

 officer's abuse. § 



t Fereuda Regum ingenia, neque usui esse crebras muta- 

 tiones : vitia erunt donee homines, sed neque haec continua, et 

 meliorum interventu pensantur. 



I Infseliciter aegrotat, cui plus periculi a medico quam h. 

 morbo, 



Isocrates. 



