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54 under the King, but the Romans had no uch balance. The Patricians and Plebeians in Rome were perpetually at variance, and there was no intermediate Power to reconcile them. The Roman Senate who were o unjutly, o criminally proud, as not to uffer the Plebeians to hare with them in any thing, cou'd find no other artifice to keep the latter out of the Administration than by employing them in foreign wars. They conider'd the Plebeians as a wild beat, whom it behov'd them to let looe upon their neighbours, for fear they hould devour their maters. Thus the greatet defect in the Government of the Romans rais'd 'em to be Conquerors. By being unhappy at home, they triumph'd over, and poe'd themelves of the world, till at lat their diviions unk them to Slavery. government of England will never rie to o exalted a pitch of glory, nor will its end be o fatal. The Englih are not fir'd with the plendid folly of making conquets, but would only prevent their neighbours from conquering. They