This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1797 Excerpt: ...tumult, in the despair of suffering, do force, indeed, attention: the magistrate is then removed, and often very severely punished. But if, in committing excesses against the subject, he escapes mostly with impunity, he is treated with inexorable rigour on the slightest failure towards government. He lies under the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1797 Excerpt: ...tumult, in the despair of suffering, do force, indeed, attention: the magistrate is then removed, and often very severely punished. But if, in committing excesses against the subject, he escapes mostly with impunity, he is treated with inexorable rigour on the slightest failure towards government. He lies under the hardship, also, of being frequently responsible for events which he seldom can control. Upon the general principle that it is his duty to watch over the morals of the people, he is in many cases considered as a criminal for not preventing crimes which he had not been able to prevent. The mandarines are thus aware, of not being guaranteed by good conduct against disgrace, and feel the chagrin of insecurity-. That go-vernment is certainly the most firm, in which a large proportion of the subjects, as in Great Britain, are con-scious of having an interest in its preservation. Such does not seem the general sentiment in China. Without any reasoning upon the right of changing their rulers, many Chinese are disposed to see in such an alteration a prospect of a meliorated condition. These feel inclined to take a part in the revolts which frequently happen in one or other of the provinces. The junction of numbers is prevented chiefly by the fear of failure. When per-sonal attachment to the sovereign, to obtain which great pains have been taken in the present dynasty, ceases in consequence of any general evil pressing upon the people, which he is either supposed to have occasioned, or not-to have endeavoured to remedy, no sentiment of his having a claim ofright to the throne he fills, which is elsewhere such a security to monarchs, arrests the dispo-sition of endeavouring to make him yield it to another. The general maxim of obedience to the prince, incul...
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