selves against an evil which may assail them.
The means recommended by our author in the 5th chapter of the Prince, for the government and conservation of dependant states and provinces, has been literally adhered to by Buonaparte in his conduct to
Whoever compares the present with the past, will find that all cities and all nations have been and are animated by the same desires and the same passions. Hence it is easy, by a careful and deliberate examination of the past, to discover what will happen in a state, when we may apply either the means employed by the ancients or invent such as are more adapted to the purpose. But this examination is neglected by the greater portion of readers, or rather it is above their comprehension; or if some one amongst them is capable of deriving such consequences, they are always unknown to those who govern; whence it is that we continually see the same evils produce the same revolutions.-Reflections on Livy, ch. 39. lib. 1.
The astronomer knows the course of the stars, and announces their different motions; and the philosopher, who meditates in silence and tranquillity, and who knows the actual manners of a people, is rarely deceived when he predicts its destiny.—Du Chas.:
