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power of golden eloquence, as it is in the 

 adage. 



The two great pillars which the mind uphold. 

 Not being mammon-proof, do bow to gold.* 



Besides, we can find no better way to breed 

 an absolute dependence, and make others ad- 

 here to our fortunes, than by winding the con- 

 cernments of other men upon the same bottom 

 with our interest ; we may observ^e this from 

 the practice of great favourites, who always 

 delight in these props, and are careful to set 

 their whole tribes in the sunshine of favour. 



5. Because such a general deordination gives 

 a taste and relish to the succeeding government, 

 though in itself not so delectable ; for Aristotle 

 notes, that democracy is better than anarchy.t 



There are many other advantages to be made 

 by a due improvement of those turbid intervals ; 

 as the occasion of subdividing, and parcelling 

 out your great end ; for, by this means, they 

 v/hich refused to close with it in gross, will re- 

 ceive it in retail : and having entertained some 

 portions of it, the grudge they bore to the 

 whole, will be by degrees quieted and ap- 

 peased. 



Besides, when all things are ruffled and con- 

 fused, it is then the devil's holiday, and there- 



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