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by eminent men, that got the lead among them, their affairs went into the greatefl 

 difordcr, and their State was ruined. — Their feizing the public money, and applying 

 it to their maintainance and pleafures, one of the chief caijles of their ruin. — This 

 made them live an indolent and pleafurable life, which made them unfit for the great 

 wars, wherein they engaged — of their lofles in the Peloponefian war, — which had 

 like to have ended in the total deftruftion of their city. — By the peace which they 

 were forced to make, they were fubjefted to thirty tyrants.— One chief reafon of 

 their ill fuccefs in the war, was their fufpicion of all the men of eminence among 

 them, — V hich made them praftice that extraordinary form of procefs called Oftra- 

 cifm. — Example of that in the cafe of Ariftides — ^They might perhaps have taken 

 Syracufe, if they had not recalled Alcibiades from that expedition. — Their reafon 

 for recalling him, a moft frivolous one. — The adminiftration of their affairs at Rome 

 in fome inftances accompanied with the greatefl: injuftice, — an example of this in the 

 condemnation and execution of fourteen of their fea commanders, who had obtained 

 for them a fingle viftory. — Their democratical form of government corrupted their 

 manners, — and made them a people quite different from their anceftors. — Their go- 

 vernment a moft compleat democracy, where Liberty and Equality were in the high- 

 eft: perfe(Slion. — No other example neceffary to prove how bad a government demo- 

 cracy is, than the example of France before our eyes ; — more folly, madnefs, and 

 crimes, committed under that government by the French, than there is any example 

 of in any other nation in the fame fliort fpace of time. — Monarchy the beft form of 

 government. — It is the government of the Univerfe, and the firft government among 

 men — fo much founded in nature, that it takes place occafionally even in conftitu- 

 tions of which it is no part, — as in the cafe of the Dictator among the Romans.— 

 Of the perpetual Dictator in Rome, and then of their Emperors. — One effential dif- 

 ference betwixt the democratical and monarchical governments, that the democrati- 

 cal never can be a good government, but the monarchical, though not reftrained by 

 laws, may be a good government ; — two chances for that, if the Kmg be a good 

 King, or his Minifter a good Minifter. — The particular happinefs of Britain is to have 

 both good. — Nothmg can make men defirous of a change of fuch a government, but 

 the infedion of the French madnels j — proper means ufed to prevent that. Page i88 



CHAP. X. 



- Ai i^bEfa si rioijs3Bfp 

 Of the government of Egypt. — That government very antient, — as antient as the days 



of Jofcplii — no other regular government then on earth, except in India: — But that 

 - government derived from Egypt — All governments confift of the governors and the 

 governed. — Of the governors in Egypt. — The government there monarchical, which 

 the Egyptians thought the beft government. — The King in Egypt had only the exe- 

 cutive power. — A higher dafs of men were his Counlcliors. — To them were intruft- 



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