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A.6. prosperity, but to transmit the Scepter to their posterity, which becomes otherwise a very precarious measure; few Princes however have ever ^ ^ ^ addition seen or /addition deletion unclear /deletion will see this in its proper light, the false lustre of Sovereign power, idleness, & pleasure that skreens from their eyes the many perils that cirround them, will continually carry it over every other consideration, & the History of all times informs us that all governments sooner or later came to Despotism.

Thus much for the situation of the Tyrant himself, how dreadful are the effects of Despotism with regard to the unhappy People; let us run over some of the principle ones & take the Turkish Government for an example; the first sad consequence is extreme ignorance in all people in office, a Turkish