. The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems . Commodum ell etiam , uthjtrcditates non donatione, fed jure agnationii tradantuTy utque ad eundetnvnuy non plures h£reditates pervenrant. Anil. Pol. 5. c. 8. (^13) DitesolimfamiliA nobitium, aut claritndine mfgties, ftudio Magni^centix prola-bebantHY. Tac. 7,. Ann. (14) Sed cum ex Prtmarik a(iqni bona dijppdfuntf hi res novat molimtur. Arift. Pol. C. c. 12. 0M^ Vo!.I. lis EMBLEM XVIIL. VIRTUE has given Empire to many^ Vice tofew. In thefe the Scepter was a violent and dan-gerous Ufurpation, in tliofe a juft Title and lafting Suc-ceffi
. The royal politician represented in one hundred emblems . Commodum ell etiam , uthjtrcditates non donatione, fed jure agnationii tradantuTy utque ad eundetnvnuy non plures h£reditates pervenrant. Anil. Pol. 5. c. 8. (^13) DitesolimfamiliA nobitium, aut claritndine mfgties, ftudio Magni^centix prola-bebantHY. Tac. 7,. Ann. (14) Sed cum ex Prtmarik a(iqni bona dijppdfuntf hi res novat molimtur. Arift. Pol. C. c. 12. 0M^ Vo!.I. lis EMBLEM XVIIL. VIRTUE has given Empire to many^ Vice tofew. In thefe the Scepter was a violent and dan-gerous Ufurpation, in tliofe a juft Title and lafting Suc-ceffion. Virtue by a certain occult and fecret Force,does as twere compel Men to love and admire Elements obey the Heavens for the Perfe<5lion andExcellency of them ,• fo Men too think none worthythe Sovereign Power, but thofe of Sovereign Jufticeand Virtue. For which caufe, Cyrus thought no onewas fit to govern, but he who was better than tholehe governed (i). Subjects pay more Reverence to , in whom they difcern more than ordinary En- (i) Nm cenfebat convenire cuiquam qui non melior ejjet itsqnit)us imperaret, XcQoph, lib. 8, dowments ii6 j^et a rrince always acknomeefge dowments of Mind ; the greater they are^ the greateris their Refpect and Efteem^ for all believe that to fucha Prince, God is more propidoiis and ready to affifthim in all things, and to dire<5l his Government. Tisthis alone made Jof
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