I fancy they'll hardly ever be ſo ſilly again, they ſeeming to be grown wiſer at their own expence; and I don't perceive the leaſt inclination in them to murther one another merely about ſyllogiſms, as ſome Zealots among them once did.
But here follows a more eſſential difference between Rome and England, which gives the advantage entirely to the latter, viz, that the civil wars of Rome ended in ſlavery, and thoſe of the Engliſh in liberty. The Engiſh are the only people upon earth who have been able to preſcribe limits to the power of Kings by reſiſting them; and who, by a ſeries of ſtruggles, have at laſt eſtabliſh'd that wiſe Government, where the Prince is all powerful to do good, and at the ſame time is reſtrain'd from committing evil; where the Nobles are great without inſolence, tho' there are nd Vaſſals; and where the People ſhare in the government without confuſion.
The houſe of Lords and that of the Commons divide the legiſlative power
