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Rh and happens to have bad cup-bearers, and grows drunk with an unmixed draught of it, beyond what is neceary, it punihes even the governors, if they will not be entirely tame, and afford a deal of liberty, accuing them as corrupted, and leaning towards oligarchy. Such as are obedient to magitrates are abued, as willing laves, and good for nothing. Magitrates who reemble ubjects, and ubjects who reemble magitrates, are commended and honoured, both in public and private; in uch a city they of neceity oon go to the highet pitch of liberty, and this inbred anarchy decends into private families. The father reembles the child, and is afraid of his ons. The ons accutom themelves to reemble the father, and neither revere nor tand in awe of their parents. Strangers are equalled with citizens. The teacher fears and flatters the cholars, and the cholars depie their teachers and tutors. The youth reemble the more advanced in years, and rival them in words and deeds. The old men, itting down with the young, are full of merriment and pleaantry, mimicking the youth, that they may not appear to be moroe and depotic. The laves are no les free than thoe who purchae them; and wives have a perfect equality and liberty with their hubands, and hubands with their wives.—The um of all thee things, collected together, make the ouls of the citizens o delicate, that if any one bring near to them any thing of lavery, they are filled with indignation, and cannot endure it; and at length they regard not the laws, written or unwritten, that no one whatever, by any manner of means, may become their mater. This is that government o beautiful and youthful, whence tyranny prings. But any thing in exces, in animal or vegetable bodies, in