Reflections On the Rise And Fall of the Ancient Republicks: Adapted to the Present State of ...
Reflections On the Rise And Fall of the Ancient Republicks: Adapted to the Present State of ...
Edward Wortley Montagu
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The iame jiidiciaus * hlfiorian, in his remarks on the different conftftutions of the ancient Re- jmhllcJis, obfcryes, ." That the fiourifliing Stale of theTheb^ns was but of fhort dura^ tion, npr was their decay gradual, becaufe their fuddcn rife was not founded on right principles* For the Thebans, as he affirms, took the opportunity of attacking the Spsu> tans when the imprudence and haughtinefe of that people had made then! quite odious to their allies ; and that they acquir'd amongfl: the ...Greeks their high reputation for valour by the virtue and abilities of one or two great men, who knew how to make the beft ufe of thc^c unexpefted incidents, which ib fortunately offered. He add^, that the fud- den change in their aifairs made it quickly ap- pear to all, that their reniarkable fuccefs was not owing to the fyftem of their Govern- ment, but to the publick virtue of thofe who were at the head of the Admtniftration. For that the power and grandeur of the The- bans arofe, flcwrifli'd, and fell with Epami- nondas and Pelopidas is too evident, he fays, to be deny'd.
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