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On The Sacred Characters Of Kings.
tier how a prince mi g ht reign with safety , and without a guard for the surety of his person , wisely answered , " Let him command-his Subjects as a good father does his children . " Antiochus , surnamed the Great , being out a hunting , pursued his game with such eagerness that he wandered away from his courtiers and domestics , and was constrained to pass the nig ht in a poor peasant's hut , whom he asked at supper , "in what ? who answered has
esteem the king was held in his village " , " our king but one fault , which is his extravagant love for the chace ; and his favourites abuse the confidence of their master to the very great oppression of the subject . " The King , hearing this , went to his humble couch , determined the next day to reprimand his favourites , who had never told him the truth in the manner this man had done .
Theopompoor pus being interrogated , in what manner a king mig ht safely preserve his kingdom , replied , " In giving full liberty to his friends to tell the truth without disguise , and in employing his power for preserving his subjects from oppression . " Philip , King of Macedon , at one time desirous to encamp in an agreeable and advantageous spot for his army , was told it was not _ a conve-. burthen
nient place for obtaining forage for the cavalry and beasts of ; he replied , " the life of a king " is very grievous indeed , since besides the c . re of his soldiers , he must consult the lives of horses andmules . " A Lacedemonian was of opinion , that the only advantage a king had over other men was , that no one had so much power of doing good to others . A petty King of Greece could not suffer any one in his presence to call the Sophy of Persia the Great King ; " why , " said he , " should he be greater than I , without he is better and more rig hteous ?"
Alphonsus , King of Arragon , used to say , " that the word , of a king ought to be as sacred as the oath of . a private man : he said also , that an ignorant prince is a crowned ass . " A poor fellow passing too suddenl y b " y the same Alp honsus with some branches of a tree , one of them happened , from its elasticity , to touch the king in the eye , which immediately swelled . As every one ofhis courtiers seemed to share in the pain he must feel in so tender a part ; " what I feel" said heis " not half so
, , sensible to me as the torment and fear of the poor man who has hurt me . " They made this prince take notice , that he ought to have more consider ration for his safety , than to walk pi a public manner without his guards ; he answered , " What has a king to fear who does all the good in his power to his subjects ? " One day he beheld a galley full of soldiers and sailors on the point of perishing , and ordered immediate assistance to be given
them : his orders not being obeyed , on account of the danger , he rushed forward to assist them himself—His favourites interposed , representing to his Majesty the great risk he ran ofhis life ; " I had much rather , " answered he , "be a companion than a spectator in the death of my soldiers . " Alphonsus , King of Spain , told those who remonstrated that the simlicity ofhis clothes put htm too much ' on a level with his subjects , " I had
p rather that my virtues should ' distinguish me from my subjefts , than the dia'dem or the purple . " King Louis the XII * bore so great a love to his people ,- that he ricglecfcd many certain conquests , rather than tax his subjefts for the support cf the war , saying , that a good shepherd cannot
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
On The Sacred Characters Of Kings.
tier how a prince mi g ht reign with safety , and without a guard for the surety of his person , wisely answered , " Let him command-his Subjects as a good father does his children . " Antiochus , surnamed the Great , being out a hunting , pursued his game with such eagerness that he wandered away from his courtiers and domestics , and was constrained to pass the nig ht in a poor peasant's hut , whom he asked at supper , "in what ? who answered has
esteem the king was held in his village " , " our king but one fault , which is his extravagant love for the chace ; and his favourites abuse the confidence of their master to the very great oppression of the subject . " The King , hearing this , went to his humble couch , determined the next day to reprimand his favourites , who had never told him the truth in the manner this man had done .
Theopompoor pus being interrogated , in what manner a king mig ht safely preserve his kingdom , replied , " In giving full liberty to his friends to tell the truth without disguise , and in employing his power for preserving his subjects from oppression . " Philip , King of Macedon , at one time desirous to encamp in an agreeable and advantageous spot for his army , was told it was not _ a conve-. burthen
nient place for obtaining forage for the cavalry and beasts of ; he replied , " the life of a king " is very grievous indeed , since besides the c . re of his soldiers , he must consult the lives of horses andmules . " A Lacedemonian was of opinion , that the only advantage a king had over other men was , that no one had so much power of doing good to others . A petty King of Greece could not suffer any one in his presence to call the Sophy of Persia the Great King ; " why , " said he , " should he be greater than I , without he is better and more rig hteous ?"
Alphonsus , King of Arragon , used to say , " that the word , of a king ought to be as sacred as the oath of . a private man : he said also , that an ignorant prince is a crowned ass . " A poor fellow passing too suddenl y b " y the same Alp honsus with some branches of a tree , one of them happened , from its elasticity , to touch the king in the eye , which immediately swelled . As every one ofhis courtiers seemed to share in the pain he must feel in so tender a part ; " what I feel" said heis " not half so
, , sensible to me as the torment and fear of the poor man who has hurt me . " They made this prince take notice , that he ought to have more consider ration for his safety , than to walk pi a public manner without his guards ; he answered , " What has a king to fear who does all the good in his power to his subjects ? " One day he beheld a galley full of soldiers and sailors on the point of perishing , and ordered immediate assistance to be given
them : his orders not being obeyed , on account of the danger , he rushed forward to assist them himself—His favourites interposed , representing to his Majesty the great risk he ran ofhis life ; " I had much rather , " answered he , "be a companion than a spectator in the death of my soldiers . " Alphonsus , King of Spain , told those who remonstrated that the simlicity ofhis clothes put htm too much ' on a level with his subjects , " I had
p rather that my virtues should ' distinguish me from my subjefts , than the dia'dem or the purple . " King Louis the XII * bore so great a love to his people ,- that he ricglecfcd many certain conquests , rather than tax his subjefts for the support cf the war , saying , that a good shepherd cannot