racies, against sovereigns. They were never conceived by weak and timid minds, but by those who surpassed the rest in courage, riches, and greatness of soul, and consequently more sensibly felt the excesses and outrages, imposed upon them."
Reflections on Livy, Chap. 2.
Those who wish to see the subject farther pursued, and the different species of governments compared with each other, together with the different degrees of merit in the founders, will be amply gratified with our author's mode of treating the subject in the above work.
Our author, in the second chapter, treats of hereditary principalities, in which he lays down maxims for their government and their preservation.
He here shews, that an hereditary prince may easily maintain himself on the throne of his ancestors, if he acts with common prudence, and adapts his conduct to the occasion. And even should he be driven from his throne, by an infinitely superior
