Excerpt from Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, Vol. 3 Induce or force to desert it. I do not be lieve that these pages will, now or ever, lie inert on generous minds; yet little is the effect I can hope from them, in comparison with what has been produced, and is stil to be expected, from the iniquity of usurpers. Without it, even your own efforts would have been ineffectual. Freedom rises from tyranny, truth from falsehood, great men from great injuries. The moment is arrived when all despotic governments are ranged against all the constitutional, and (what is worse) when the more powerful of the latter shew an inclination to abandon the rest. 'wherever there is any taint of monarchy, the government is disposed toward the de spot of another state, rather than toward the people of it, or than toward those, who ever they may be, that resist him. For, the ministers, being the prince's, not the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.