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A.3. in a long tract of Years many occasions Offer that Kings generaly Seize with avidity.
note 6.7 /note Division once Sown among the People the Sword of tyrrany must forever glitter before their eyes, for to deletion unclear /deletion addition debase /addition their Minds, & depress them more & more. a Manly, Virtuous turn becomes highly Criminal, & a feeble effeminacy, gets the name of Heroism; Tacitus tells us that under the Reign of Domitian Virtues were sentences of death & the Virtuous Man that did not Counsel a Crime, was still forc'd to join in it. deletion if /deletion We must distinguish two sorts of Despotism, one establish'd by force of Arms over a Virtuous Nation that suffers it impatiently, of which Greece gives us many examples, the other is the Work of time, Luxury, & effeminacy; with regard to the first it cannot
