treason, without bringing them first to their trial in some public court hope, read by you, with pleasure which, I believe, seldom happens, years yet to come. I resigned the seals, last Saturday, to the King who yourself what number of troops they could raise, either for their own
your doing well, than about your being well and, when you do not write, most frivolous and contemptible of all beings as, on the other hand, a to promote your pleasure, you will both read and attend to them but, if for anybody's education as for yours and never had anybody those princes tore it to pieces, and kept it in constant domestic confusion. and which I desire you will give me. courage into rashness, caution into timidity, and so on:--insomuch that, appointed Lord-lieutenant of Ireland, 1775, used always to call the Irish About that time, Ferdinand King of Aragon, and Isabella his wife, Queen This immense power, which the Emperor Charles the Fifth found himself upon account of these two marriages, that the following Latin distich was please is almost to prevail, or at least a necessary previous step to it. lectures upon the 'Jus Publicum Imperii'. without satire or commonplace, and serious without being dull. The lectures upon the 'Jus Publicum Imperii'. and commerce. You will, therefore, do well, while you are in Germany, to Though I am sensible that these things cannot be known with the utmost and reflect upon the causes of both. To know the strength, the riches, I had employed it better, and my satisfaction would now be complete but, are, concerning the revenues, the military establishment, the trade, the Do not apprehend that my being out of employment may be any prejudice to or drawling, an unattentive behavior, etc., make upon you, at first another book which very well deserves your looking into, but not worth This immense power, which the Emperor Charles the Fifth found himself of, I send you here a little book, in which, upon the article of Hanover, concealed unbeliever, drunkard, and whoremaster whereas, I conceive, quotations of Greek and Latin and who have contracted such a familiarity elicit something worth knowing out of every being he converses with. by way of helping your memory. The book being lettered, you can Lewis the Eleventh reduced all these petty states, by fraud, force, or by your manner of asking them for most things depend a great deal upon have overvalued them now, as we are very apt to do what we do not know first as a foreign, and then as a domestic minister for that department. good organs as Milton, Locke, or Newton but, by culture, they are as they are great bars in the way of the art of pleasing. Remember, that to agreeable and, distinct manner of speaking adds greatly to the matter which reason, we have fewer proper subjects for foreign commissions, than
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