THE CRAFTSMAN. B Y CALEB D'ANVERS, of GRAY-S-INN, Efq; LONDON. Printed for R. FRANCKLIN, in Ruffel Street, Covent-Garden. M,Dcc,xxxvII. THE CRAFTSMAN. N° 356. SATURDAY, April 28, 1733. S IR Walter Raleigh obferves, that there are few or none great with Kings, who bave not used their Power to opprefs; who have not grown infolent and hateful to the People; yea, infolent to thofe Princes, who advanced Them. Doctor Prideaux goes farther, and makes it a Doubt, whether the Benefit, which the World receives from Government, be fufficient to make Amends for the Calamities, which it juffers from the Follies, Miftakes and Male-Adminiftration of Thofe, who manage it. Thefe melancholy Obfervations of two fuch excellent Writers arofe, no Doubt, from thofe frequent Inftances of tyrannical and oppreffive Governors, which occurr'd to Them in their hiftorical Refearches. The Truth of them hath been already illuftrated by feveral particular Examples in the Course of thefe Papers, and might be corroborated by a Multitude of other Inftances, which abound in the Hiftories of all Nations; but That would be a needlefs Trouble at prefent, and I chufe to make VOL. XI. A fome |
