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31. Testament polit.

32. Barbaris cunctatio servilis, statim exequi regium videtur. — Tacitus, Annals., v. 32.

33. Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, and other histories.

34. Testament polit.

35. Edifying Letters, coll. ii, p. 315.

36. Continuation of Pufendorf, Introduction to the History of Europe, in the article on Sweden, 10.

37. According to Sir John Chardin, there is no council of state in Persia.

38. See Ricaut, State of the Ottoman Empire, p. 196.

39. See concerning the inheritances of the Turks, Ancient and Modern Sparta. See also Ricaut on the Ottoman empire.

40. Collection of Voyages that Contributed to the Establishment of the East India Company, i. The law of Pegu is less cruel; if there happen to be children, the king succeeds only to two-thirds. Ibid., iii, p. 1.

41. See the different constitutions, especially that of 1722.

42. See Justin.

43. See the book of laws as relative to the nature of the climate. Book xiv, below.

44. Laquilletiere, Ancient and Modern Sparta, p. 463.

45. The same may be said of compositions in regard to fair bankrupts.

46. There was no such establishment made till the Julian law, De Cessione bonorum; which preserved them from prison and from an ignominious division of their goods. — Cod., ii. tit. 12.

47 They seem to have been too fond of confiscations in the republic of Athens.

48. Authentica bona damnatorum. — Cod. de bon. proscript. seu damn.

49. De la Republique, v. 3.

50. Ut esse Phoebi dulcius lumen solet Jamjam cadentis — Seneca, Troas, V. i. 1.

51. Collection of Voyages that Contributed to the Establishment of the East India Company, i, p. 80.

52. Laws, xii.

53. Leg. 6, § 2; Dig. ad leg. Jul. repet.

54. Munuscula.

55. Plato, in his Republic, viii, ranks these refusals among the marks of the corruption of a republic. In his Laws, vi, he orders them to be punished by a fine; at Venice they are punished with banishment.

56. Victor Amadeus.

57. Some centurions having appealed to the people for the employments which they had before enjoyed, "It is just, my comrades," said a centurion, "that you should look upon every post as honourable in which you have an opportunity of defending the republic." — Livy, dec. 5, xlii, 34.

58. Ne imperium ad optimos nobilium transferretur, Senatum militia vetuit Gallienus, etiam adire exercitum. — Aurelius Victor, De C?saribus.

59. Augustus deprived the senators, proconsuls, and governors of the privilege of wearing arms. — Dio, xxxiii.

60. Constantine. See Zozimus, ii.

61. Ammianus Marcellinus, xxvi, Et Civilia, more veterum, et bella recturo.

62. Republic, viii.

63. We see the laziness of Spain, where all public employments are given away.