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The very name of emperor was afterward borrowed by the 

 greatest kings from leaders in the wars; they had solemn 

 triumphs for their successful generals; they had donatives 

 and great largesses for the soldiers, when the army was dis 

 banded ; these are such great and dazzling things in the eyes 

 of mortals, as to ]pe capable of firing the most frozen spirits 

 and inflaming them for war. In particular, the manner of 

 triumph among the Romans was not a thing of pageantry or 

 empty show, but deserving to be reckoned among the wis 

 est and most noble of their customs, as being attended with 

 these three particulars; viz., 1. The glory and honor of 

 their leaders; 2. The enriching of the treasury with the 

 spoils; and, 3. Donatives to the army. But their trium 

 phal honors were, perhaps, unfit for monarchies, unless in 

 the person of the king or his son, which also obtained at 

 Eome in the times of its emperors, who reserved the honor 

 of the triumph as peculiar to themselves and their sons upon 

 returning from the wars whereat they were present, and had 

 brought to a conclusion, only conferring their vestments and 

 triumphal ensigns upon the other leaders. 



But to conclude, though no man, as the Scripture testi 

 fies, can by taking care add one cubit to his stature, 13 that 

 is, in the little model of the human body; yet in the vast 

 fabric of kingdoms and commonwealths, it is in the power 

 of kings and rulers to extend and enlarge the bounds of em 

 pire; for by prudently introducing such laws, orders, and 

 customs as those above mentioned, and the like, they might 

 sow the seeds of greatness for posterity and future ages. 

 But these counsels seldom reach the ears of princes, who 

 generally commit the whole to the direction and disposal of 

 fortune. 



The other desideratum we note in the art of government, 

 is the doctrine of universal justice, or the fountains of law. 

 They who have hitherto written upon laws were either as 

 philosophers or lawyers: the philosophers advance many 

 things that appear beautiful in discourse, but lie out of the 



13 Matt. vi. 27, and Luke xii. 25. 



