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interno aussi vis, que si j 'ἡtota Ie Plus heureux dea
miers mouvemens involontaires, j'ai cesia totis mes ensoris Eour cela. Ie aisse λ chaque atteinte mon sanga'allumer, Ia colere et I'indignation syem parer de mea sena a je cede a D nature cette premiere explosion quae
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by that sori os merit, which. Dom the constitution Ofthe Republic, necessari ly ma de him great; a fame, and succeis in war, sit perior to what Rome had everknown in the most celebrated of her generals. He hasti triumphed at three severa I times, over the three disterent Paris of the known worid. Europe. Asia. Africa ἔand by his victories had almost doubled the extent, asweli as tho revenues of the Roman dominion; sor, ashe declared to the people oti his return from the, Mi
thridatic war. he had soli nil the losser Asia the bounda xy. but test it th middie of their empire. Ηe Was aboni fix years older than Caesar; and while Caesar immersed in pleasures, oppresset with debis, and suspect
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Pompey was nourishing in the height of poweeand glory: and . by the consent of ali parties. Placed ad the head os the Republic. This was the post that his
ambitiora see med to aim at, to be the first maci in Bois me; the leader. not the tyrant of his country; for hemore thari orice. had it in his power, to have mado
himself the master of it without any rish. is his virtueor his phlegm at leas , had not restrained him: but helived in a perpetuat expectatiora os receiving Dom thegist of the people. what he did not caro to se tete by larce; and by tamenting the disorders of the city. hopedio drive them to the necessi tyos creating him Dictator. It is an observation os ali the historians, that. while
goVerri, but with thego od-will of the go verri ed. What Ieisure he so und froni his inars , he employed in thesin dy of polite letters. and especialty of eloquence, in Which he would have aequited great iam eis his genius had n Ot drawn him to the more da etaling glory oi Arms; yet he Plea ded severat causes with applause, in. the defetice of his frienus, and clienis; and lame Ofthem in conjunction with Cicero. His langu age Was pious arid eleva ted; his sentiments just; his voico Iweet; his action nolite, and fuit os dignity. But his
sor though iti hoth ho observed the same discipline, a Perpetuat modesty, temperance, and gravity of out-ward bobavio ur; yet 4n the licence of camps..tho ex ample was more rare, and sitiLing. His person was extremely graccsul, and imprint ing respect; yet withari air of reserved hau ghtiness, which be came the generat helter thati th. cilizeti. His paris Here Plausibio,
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rither than great: specious. rather inan penetrat ing: and his vie s of polities but narrow; for his chies instrument of governing was dissimulation ; yet he had Not always the art to conceat his real senti metits. Ashe was a hetter soldier than a statesman, so what hegained in the eamp. he usu atly lost in the city, anathough adored when abroad, was osten as rited aridmortisted at home. tili the imprudent opposthion os tho senate drove him to that alliance with Crassus and Cae .lar, which proved fatal, both to himself, and the Republic. He took in the two. notas the paritiers, butthe ministera rather of his power; that by giving themtime mare inith him, he might malie his Oisti autho. rity uncontrollable : he had Do rea son to apprehend. that they could ever prove his rivals; since net ther of them had any credit or tharacter of that hind. Whichalotie could ratia them above the laws; a superior fa me and experienee in Har. with the militia of the em. pire at their devotion: ali this vias purely his o nς tili, hy eherishing Caesar, and throwing into his harida the only thing which he wanted. arnas. and milita πεOmmatio, he mado him at Iast-too strong for himself, and never hegan to Lear him, tili it was too late.
' Cicero warmIy dissulided both his utiton and hishreacti initi, Caesar; and after the rupture, as WarmlyHIl. the thought of giving him batile: is any of theseeouti seIs had hecti sollowed. Pompey had prelarved his 3 lire, and hono ur, and the republie ita liberty. Buthe was rirged to his sate by a natural superstition, audattention to thoia vata anguries. with which he was Rattered by a It the Haruspiees t he had laeti the fame temper in Marius and Sylla, and observed the happyesseeta osti: hut they assu medit only out os poli . heout oi prandiple: they ulad it to animate their sol-
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mucti in his hopes; and that Cicero had judged hetter. and seen farther in to things than he.
The resolution os seehing refugo in Egypv. finim est the sad catasti ophe of this great man: The father of thereigning Prince had beeti highly obliged to him foehis protectiora at Rome . and restoration to his hing-dom : and the soti had sent a considerable neet to his assistance in the present war: hut ita this ruiti Of. hi fortunes, what gratitude was there in be expeeten Doma CO uri by eunuchs and mercenary Greolis 2 all. hola Polii ita turned. not on the honour os the hing, but the
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tet enthali. A hose talenis that commonly appear single in others, and they to men ol reputation. mone sorth in him united and eminent. Ali his cotemporaries, Eventho who ha ted the Courtier, stand np, and bear witnesstogether to the superior abilities of the Uriter and Pleader, of the Philosopher and Companiora. In conversation , he could assume the most dissering chara ters, and speah the langu age proper to ea ch, with a s cility, that was perseetly naturat; or the dexterity of he habit con aled every appea rance of ari: a haPPyversatilily of genius. which ali meti Wi in to arrive at, and One Or two, once in an age. are seen to possess. In Public , he commanded the attention os his hearers, and had their assections wholly in his pomer. As heuccompavied what he spolie, with au the expressiona nil grace of action, his Pleadings, that are noW Per haps read without emotion, never fallen to a wahen in his andieneo the severat passions he intended theystio uid seel. This is not a picture of him drawn Tromiano: it is copied and that too, but in miniature, a
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commendatiora of his xalenta. the leam et throughout Europe have gi ven their common sanction, and Own
him for the sather of the only valvabis philosophy,
that of saei and observation. It rema ins then to confider him, more particula δ' than we have hitherio dono in this most linown and conspicuous part of his character; -here his meritis unquestionably great and entirely his own. For, tothe writings of the antients. he was not, he could n Othe obliged. They had either mistahen the right roadio natural knowIedge: or is a ny of them struch into ithy charice. finding the w y dissiculi, obscure, and te
eisin clown to the si xteenth Centu . But let me at.the fame time achnowledge, that this account mill be