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Indirect State-Libels
Misrule
that the more deserving he is of such a confidence
the better contented satisfied will he be with the not having
possessing it. In this observance of this prudential
caution all this there is nothing inconsistent
with the tenderest and warmest affection on the part of the
sovereign towards his a deserving servant: the cheer magnanimity
and cheerfulness with which he the latter endures
this trial: as it is the best warrant so will
it prove the surest ground basis of that affection.
The Sovereign may always say to his servant, be
he ever so great a favourite: If I did I not think
you faithful to me, you could neither ask nor
hope that I should love regard you: it is only because
I believe you faithful, that I love regard you as I do:
now but the better you endure every trial your fidelity
can be put to, the better more better I shall be convinced
of it; and the better I am convinced of it, the
more I shall love regard you. stronger and deeper-rooted will be my regard. Were we my on in private
life, this might be were my own interests
only at stake, there it might be hero an act of heroism there it might be magnanimity in my
reposing in you in me to place repose in you that boundless confidence
which some ministers endeavour ministers are apt to acquire wish in general to acquire:
but as the great interests at stake are those I am a Sovereign, as the interests of a whole
of my] a people are at stake , for from being an exertion of heroism it would
be
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