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it
by
fuch
men
as
thefe.
We
ought
always
to
keep
in
mind,
that
hiftory
is
philofophy
teach-
ing
by
examples
how
examples
of
great
magnanimity,
to
be
lure,
and
of
;
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portance
in
no
refpect
lufficient
foundations
we
could
believe
with
them
that
MOSES
wrote
every
fyllable
in
the
Pentateuch
OF THE
plains
Of the
STUDY of
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private
men
who
make
hiftory
a
political
ftudy,
or
who
apply
themfelves
in
any
manner
to
affairs
of
ftate.
But
the
reflec-
tion
is
too
general.
In
governments
fo
ar-
bitrary
by
their
conftitution,
hag,
was
that
foreign
nations
canboaftj
from
COMMINES,
Guicci-
ARDIN,
Du
BELLAY,
PAOLO,
DAVILA,
THU-
ANUS,
and
a
multitude
of
others,
down
through
the
whole
period
that
I
propofe
to
pro-
cured
to
pafs,
that
.'j&4
balance
of
countries,
fo
they
had
another
advantage
over
thole
who
were
equal
or
fupe-
rior
to
than
this,
that
they
Let. 8.
Let. 8.
it.
Thus,
for
inftance,
the
furprifing
and
feizing
the
Dutch
troops,
in
Let. 8.
partition,
in
con-
tradiction
Let. 8.
Low
Countries,
after
penetrating
into
France,
the
hopes
on
which
we
protracted
the
war
would
have
been
dilappointed,
and,
I
think,
the
moft
fanguine
mag-
nitude,
to
the
general
fyfiem
of
power
in
Europe;
and,
in
fhorr,
with
a
principal
regard
merely
to
particular
not
made
matters
directly
and
indirectly
of
have
Let. 8.
Let. i.
Let. i.
the fame
Let 2.
true
ufe
of
pleafure
and
of
bufinefs,
who
are
often
candid
enough
to
own
that
they
throw
away
their
time,
and
thereby
noife
in
the
ftate
of
the
only
rule,
by
obferv-
ing
of
ter,
already.
The
reft
(hall
appear
by
a
frag-
ment
of
one
of
nafly
for
rough
medicines
applied
to
inveterate
difeafes.
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ANACHARSIS
faid
philo-
fophy.*
However,
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