Specimens of English Prose Writers From the Earliest Times to the Close of the
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Such as are bred under a good disci- pline, and see that all benefits, procured to their country by virtuous actions, redound to the honour and advantage of themselves, their children, friends, and relations, contract, from their infancy, a love to the public, and look upon the common concernments as their own. When they have learnt to be virtuous, and see that virtue is in esteem, they seek no other preferments than such as may be obtained that way; and no country ever wanted great numbers of ...ex- cellent men, where this method was established. On the other side, when it is evident that the best are despised, hated, or marked out for destruction ; 314 SIDNEY.
all things calculated to the honour or advantage of one man, who is often the worst, or governed by the worst ; honours, riches, commands, and dignities disposed by his will, and his favour gained only by a most obsequious respect, or a pretended affection to his person, together with a servile obedience to his commands all application to virtuous actions will cease ; and no man caring to render himself er his children worthy of great employments, such as de- sire to have them will, by little intrigues, corrup- tion, scurrility, and flattery, endeavour to make way to them ; by which means true merit in a short time comes to be abolished, as fell out in Rome as soon as the Caesars began to reign.
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Such as are bred under a good disci- pline, and see that all benefits, procured to their country by virtuous actions, redound to the honour and advantage of themselves, their children, friends, and relations, contract, from their infancy, a love to the public, and look upon the common concernments as their own. When they have learnt to be virtuous, and see that virtue is in esteem, they seek no other preferments than such as may be obtained that way; and no country ever wanted great numbers of ...ex- cellent men, where this method was established. On the other side, when it is evident that the best are despised, hated, or marked out for destruction ; 314 SIDNEY.
all things calculated to the honour or advantage of one man, who is often the worst, or governed by the worst ; honours, riches, commands, and dignities disposed by his will, and his favour gained only by a most obsequious respect, or a pretended affection to his person, together with a servile obedience to his commands all application to virtuous actions will cease ; and no man caring to render himself er his children worthy of great employments, such as de- sire to have them will, by little intrigues, corrup- tion, scurrility, and flattery, endeavour to make way to them ; by which means true merit in a short time comes to be abolished, as fell out in Rome as soon as the Caesars began to reign.
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