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Title: The ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Grecians and Macedonians. Translated from the French. 11th ed., rev., corr. and illus. with a set of maps newly engraved
Year: 1808 (1800s)
Authors: Rollin, Charles, 1661-1741
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: London printed for W. Otridge (et al.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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become of fidelity and obedience,and by what stays or pillars shall the throne be sup-ported ? 0 Cyrus had good reason to say, that helooked upon none as good servants and faithful sub-jects, but such as had a sense of religion, and a reve-rence for the Deity : Nor is it at all astonishing thatthe contempt which an impious prince, who has noregard to the sanctity of oaths, shews of God and e Cyrop. 1. viii. p. 204. MANNERS, &c. religion, should shake the very foundations of thefirmest and best-established empires, and sooner orlater occasion their utter destruction. Kings, saysp Plutarch, when any revolution happens in their do-minions, are apt to complain bitterly of their sub-jects unfaithfulness and disloyalty: But they dothem wrong ; and forget that it was themselves whogave them the first lessons of their disloyalty, byshewing no regard to justice and fidelity, which onall occasions .they sacrificed without scruple to theirown particular interests. p Plut. in. Pyrrh. p. 390.
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