Such, and much worſe, is the tyrant in his tyrannical city,—envious, faithleſs, cowardly, unjuſt, unfriendly, unholy, and a ſink and breeder of all wickedneſs.
Now tell me which is the firſt and which the laſt, as to happineſs, the regal, the ambitious, the oligarchic, the democratic, and the tyrannic man and city. The beſt and juſteſt is the happieſt.
Thus, Sir, you have ſome of Plato's ſentiments of morals and politics, how much they are to Mr. Turgot's purpoſe, we may ſhew in another letter; mean time I am, &c.
LETTER XXXIV.
My dear Sir,
I Promiſed you to add to the reſearches of Polybius and Plato, concerning the mutability of governments, thoſe of Sir Thomas Smith, who, as he cells us, on the 28th of March, 1565, in the 7th of Eliz. and 51ſt year of his age, was ambaſſador from that queen to the court of France, and then publiſhed "The Commonwealth of England," not as Plato made his Republic, Xenophon his Kingdom of Perſia, or Sir Thomas Moore his Utopia, feigned commonwealths, ſuch as never were nor ſhall be, vain imaginations, phantaſies of philoſophers, but as England ſtood, and was governed at that day.
In his 7th chapter, and the two following, he gives us his opinion of the origin of a kingdom,
