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7o VENICE.
sing to consider with what Heats these
Two Powers have contested their Title
to a Kingdom that is in the Hands of
the Turk.
Among all these Difficulties the Re-
publick will still maintain it self, if Po-
licy can prevail upon Force 5 for it is
certain the Venetian Senate is one'of
the wisefl Councils in the World, tho’
at the same time, if we believe the Re-
ports of several that have been well
versed in their Constitution, a great part
of their Politics is founded on Maxims
which others do not think|consistent with
their Honour to put in practice. The
Preservation of the Republick is that to
which all other Considerations submit.
To encourage Idleness and Luxury in
the Nobility, to cherish Ignorance and
Licentiousneis in the Clergy, to keep
alive a continual Faction in the Common
People, to connive at the Viciousnels
and Debauchery of Convents, to breed
Dissensions among the Nobles of the
Terra Firma, to treat a brave Man with
Scorn and Infamy: In short, to flick at
nothing for the Publick Interest, are re-
presented as the refined Parts of the Ve-
netian Wisdom.
Among all the Instances of their Po-
litics, there is none more admirable than
the
V.
the great Seen
| Public Council
j nlly as numeroi
WAS, if we
Members, and
' ons so privately
known ’till the
the Execution,
incc they had 1
bate concerning
oftheir Admiral
together, and c
I nation; yetwas
I sor of thole W;
I»hs Defence,
I Intimation of v
him, ’till he Wi
' the Hands of L
The Noble j
^htleasttt
pire, and bm (
fw which real
^Foreign C01
t WgotheMc
!: J he private 1
j Wthem,
Sithag
\EmbaiiieT
’ them by ti,
sing to consider with what Heats these
Two Powers have contested their Title
to a Kingdom that is in the Hands of
the Turk.
Among all these Difficulties the Re-
publick will still maintain it self, if Po-
licy can prevail upon Force 5 for it is
certain the Venetian Senate is one'of
the wisefl Councils in the World, tho’
at the same time, if we believe the Re-
ports of several that have been well
versed in their Constitution, a great part
of their Politics is founded on Maxims
which others do not think|consistent with
their Honour to put in practice. The
Preservation of the Republick is that to
which all other Considerations submit.
To encourage Idleness and Luxury in
the Nobility, to cherish Ignorance and
Licentiousneis in the Clergy, to keep
alive a continual Faction in the Common
People, to connive at the Viciousnels
and Debauchery of Convents, to breed
Dissensions among the Nobles of the
Terra Firma, to treat a brave Man with
Scorn and Infamy: In short, to flick at
nothing for the Publick Interest, are re-
presented as the refined Parts of the Ve-
netian Wisdom.
Among all the Instances of their Po-
litics, there is none more admirable than
the
V.
the great Seen
| Public Council
j nlly as numeroi
WAS, if we
Members, and
' ons so privately
known ’till the
the Execution,
incc they had 1
bate concerning
oftheir Admiral
together, and c
I nation; yetwas
I sor of thole W;
I»hs Defence,
I Intimation of v
him, ’till he Wi
' the Hands of L
The Noble j
^htleasttt
pire, and bm (
fw which real
^Foreign C01
t WgotheMc
!: J he private 1
j Wthem,
Sithag
\EmbaiiieT
’ them by ti,