In a small government, any act of oppression is immediately known throughout the whole: The
murmurs and discontents, proceeding from it, are easily communicated: And the indignation
arises the higher, because the subjects are not apt to apprehend in such states, that the distance is
very wide between themselves and their sovereign. "No man," said the prince of CONDE, "is a
hero to his Valet de Chambre."
*30 It is certain that admiration and acquaintance are altogether
incompatible towards any mortal creature.c Sleep and love convinced even ALEXANDER
himself that he was not a God: But I suppose that such as daily attended him could easily, from
the numberless weaknesses to which he was subject, have given him many still more convincing
proofs of his humanity.
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