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The authority of an Arabian scherif is very great; that of a Tartar khan altogether despotical.
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Whether oppression, injustice, and cruelty, are the only evils which attend on despotical government, may be considered apart.
3
Oppression and cruelty are not always necessary to despotical government; and even when present, are but a part of its evils.
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And forfeiture gives the third despotical power to lords for their own benefit, over those who are stripped of all property.
5
His wooing had been of the most despotical and patronizing kind; not the kind that a proud girl would have put up with.
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But it is the highest refinement of a despotical government, to rule by simple commands, and to exclude every art but that of compulsion.
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Such a council can command obedience only by the military force with which they are accompanied; and their government is, therefore, necessarily military and despotical.
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Thirdly, Despotical power is an absolute, arbitrary power one man has over another, to take away his life, whenever he pleases.