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Rh of them, he leads a life neither illiberal nor licentious, becoming a democratic man from an aritocratic. His on is educated in his manners, but the ame things happening to him as to his father, he is drawn into all kinds of licentiounes, which is termed, however, by thoe who draw him off, the mot complete liberty. His father, the dometics, and others, are aiding to thoe deires which are in the middle: but when the tyrant-makers have no hopes of retaining the youth in their power any other way, they contrive to excite in him a certain love, which preides over the indolent deires, and uch as miniter readily to their pleaures; and when other deires make a noie about him, full of their odours and perfumes, and crowns and wines, and the pleaures of the mot diolute kind, then truly he is urrounded with madnes as a life guard, and that preident of the oul rages with phrenzy, till he kills all modety, is cleaned of temperance, and filled with additional madnes. This is the formation of a tyrannical man. After this there are featings among them, and revellings, banquetting, and mitrees, and all uch things as may be expected where the tyrants love, drunkennes, and madnes, govern ail in the oul. After this there is borrowing and pillaging of ubtance, and earching for every thing which they are able, by rage and phrenzy, deceit and violence, to carry off; pillfering and beguiling parents. When the ubtance of father and mother fails, he will break into houes, rob in the treets, rifle temples. Thoe deires which heretofore were only looe from their lavery in leep, when he was yet under the laws and his father, when under democratic government, now when he is tyrannized over by his paions, hall be equally as looe when he is awake, and from