Četvrtak, Januar 06, 2011

places they are to

places they are to fill, the administration of government will become a mere farce, and our publick affairs will never be put on the footing of solid security. We should inquire into the tempers of men, in order to form a judgment in what manner the publick trusts to be reposed in them will be executed. You remember the character of pisistratus. He was a citizen of athens, supposd to have many excellent qualities, but he had an insatiable lust of preeminence. Solon could discover his vanity, but the people were blinded by a false glare of virtues and he was their idol. Under pretence of his having escaped imminent danger

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