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They see and feel this,
the same thing which you too see and feel,—that there is one man in whom all
qualities are in the highest perfection, and that he is near, (which circumstance makes it
seem harder to be deprived of him,) by whose mere arrival and name, although it was a maritime
war for which he came, they are nevertheless aware that the attacks of the enemy were retarded
and repressed. They then, since they cannot speak freely, silently entreat you to think them
(as you have thought your allies in the other provinces) worthy of having their safety
recommended to such a man; and to think them worthy even more than others, because we often
send men with absolute authority into such a province as theirs, of such character, that, even
if they protect them from the enemy, still their arrival among the cities of the allies is not
very different from an invasion of the enemy. They used to hear of him before, now they see
him among them; a man of such moderation, such mildness, such humanity, that those seem to be
the happiest people among whom he remains for the longest time.
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