. Politick discourses;. diforders then ordcrs,3nd more apt to confound, then to eftablifli States. Infomuchas his opinion is, That if thtre were a City at this day in Italy which had the fame\: orm of Government as Rome had of old, that City might, as the other did, makeherfelf Miftrcfsof the World. Asif the condition of times,3nd the fo many variousaccidents upon which humane anions, and cfpA:ially the augmenting and change ofStates do depend, were to be held for nothing -, and that it be in the power of awife Legiflator to give the Empire of the World to that City, which he knowshow to gover
. Politick discourses;. diforders then ordcrs,3nd more apt to confound, then to eftablifli States. Infomuchas his opinion is, That if thtre were a City at this day in Italy which had the fame\: orm of Government as Rome had of old, that City might, as the other did, makeherfelf Miftrcfsof the World. Asif the condition of times,3nd the fo many variousaccidents upon which humane anions, and cfpA:ially the augmenting and change ofStates do depend, were to be held for nothing -, and that it be in the power of awife Legiflator to give the Empire of the World to that City, which he knowshow to govern by good Laws. But experience teacheth os much otherwife 5 fineswe have known many antient Commonwealths founded by very wife men,and con-firmed with excellent Orders, equally for what concerns Peace as War, yet not anyrne amongft fo many hath been able, I will not fay to acquire fo much Dominionas did the Commonwealth of Rente, but nor hardly able any ways to extend theirPrccnfts amongft their Neighbors. Theintrinfeca
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