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Thus a Prince who makes himself formidable to his own Subjects, can never be formidable to his Foreign Enemies, nor can he ascertain himself of any thing, because he hath both the Jealousies of his own Subjects and the Suspicions of his Enemies to grapple with. The Affections of his Subjects are alienated, because they can put no Confidence in him; and his Neighbors look upon him as an Enemy always ready to invade them, and with whom there's no other Measures to be taken, but to put him out of a Condition to hurt them, or to break his Treaties.

From: The History of the works of the learned; or, An impartial account of books printed in Europe from 1699 to 1711.

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Description

Thus a Prince who makes himself formidable to his own Subjects, can never be formidable to his Foreign Enemies, nor can he ascertain himself of any thing, because he hath both the Jealousies of his own Subjects and the Suspicions of his Enemies to grapple with. The Affections of his Subjects are alienated, because they can put no Confidence in him; and his Neighbors look upon him as an Enemy always ready to invade them, and with whom there's no other Measures to be taken, but to put him out of a Condition to hurt them, or to break his Treaties.

From: The History of the works of the learned; or, An impartial account of books printed in Europe from 1699 to 1711.

(first attempt to upload text to dA, which apparently has its pitfalls - we'll see..)

(having to insert HTML tags throughout is definitely pretty annoying)

(Update: this is a really crazy way of posting text)