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... ministers are not worse . There is hardly any prince without a favourite , by whom he is governed in as arbitrary a manner as he governs the wretches subjected to him . Here the tyranny is doubled . There are two courts , and two ...
... ministers are not worse . There is hardly any prince without a favourite , by whom he is governed in as arbitrary a manner as he governs the wretches subjected to him . Here the tyranny is doubled . There are two courts , and two ...
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... ministers who had advised , and the generals who had conducted , those wars ; until by degrees they had cut off all who could serve them in their councils or their battles . If at any time these wars had an happy issue , it was no less ...
... ministers who had advised , and the generals who had conducted , those wars ; until by degrees they had cut off all who could serve them in their councils or their battles . If at any time these wars had an happy issue , it was no less ...
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... minister could not exercise his functions ; a warlike people , amongst whom a general did not dare either to gain or lose a battle ; a learned nation , in which a philosopher could not venture on a free inquiry . This was the city which ...
... minister could not exercise his functions ; a warlike people , amongst whom a general did not dare either to gain or lose a battle ; a learned nation , in which a philosopher could not venture on a free inquiry . This was the city which ...
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... ministers at one period , or to their supine negli- gence and traitorous dissensions at another , the complaint had been just , and might have been useful . But far the greater and much the worst part of the state which he ex- hibits ...
... ministers at one period , or to their supine negli- gence and traitorous dissensions at another , the complaint had been just , and might have been useful . But far the greater and much the worst part of the state which he ex- hibits ...
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... minister this nation has enjoyed since his Majesty's accession is the Earl of Bute ; and the only good Managers of revenue we have seen are Lord Despenser and Mr. George ... ministers be enlarged CC THE PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION . " 189.
... minister this nation has enjoyed since his Majesty's accession is the Earl of Bute ; and the only good Managers of revenue we have seen are Lord Despenser and Mr. George ... ministers be enlarged CC THE PRESENT STATE OF THE NATION . " 189.
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