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 even by becoming their Mater; if rich, he tood in need of their Services, if poor, of their Aitance; even Mediocrity itelf could not enable him to do without them. He mut therefore have been continually at work to interet them in his happines, and make them, if not really, at leat apparently find their Advantage in labouring for his: this rendered him ly and artful in his dealings with ome, imperious and cruel in his dealings with others, and laid him under the Neceity of uing ill all thoe whom he tood in need of, as often as he could not awe them into a Compliance with his Will, and did not find it his Interet to purchae it at the Expence of real Services. In fine, an inatiable Ambition, the Rage of raiing their relative Fortunes, not o much thro' real Neceity, as to over-top others, inpire all Men with a wicked Inclination to injure each other, and with a ecret Jealousy o much the more dangerous, as to carry its