250 HUME. 



of any age or any Nation, can present to us. He seems 

 indeed to 4ta- be the compleat model of that perfect character, 

 which, under the denomination of a Sage or Wiseman, the 



been fond of delineating 

 Philosophers have ever ^^ framed, rather as a fiction of 



ever 

 their imagination, than with the hopes of over seeing it 



reduc'd to Practice : so happily were all his virtues temper'd 



justly 



together : so nicely were they blended : and so powerfully 

 did each prevent the other from exceeding its proper Bounds. 

 He knew how to conciliate the boldest enterprize with the 

 coolest moderation: the most obstinate Perseverance with 

 the easiest Flexibility : the most severe justice with the greatest 



greatest affability of 



lenity : the most rigorous command with the most affable 



and inclination science 



deportment : the highest capacity A for -knowledge- with the 

 most shining talents for action. His civil and his military 

 virtues are almost equally the objects of our admiration: 



ing 



except A only, that the former, being more rare among 

 princes, as well as more useful seem chiefly to challenge 

 our applause. Nature also, as if desirous, that so bright a 

 production of her skill shoud be set in the fairest light, 

 him bestowed on him 



had endowed A with A all bodily accomplishments, vigour 

 of limbs, Dignity of shap and air, and a pleasant, engaging, 

 and open countenance. Fortune, alone, by throwing him into 

 that barbarous age, deprived him of historians worthy to 

 transmit his Fame to Posterity: and we wish to see him 

 painted delineated in more lively strokes colours, and with 



particular strokes 



more lively colours, that we may at least -see- see- perceive 

 some of those small Specks and Blemishes, from which, as a 

 man, it is impossible he coud be entirely free exempted." 



" The sentence of Interdict was at that time the great 

 instrument of Vengeance and Policy employd by the Court 

 of Rome : was pronounc'd against sovereigns for the lightest 

 offences: and for the guilt of one pcroon made the guilt 



