There are other things that have to do with instructions that the king is sending out to people from the palace.

还有一些,和国王从王宫里发给臣民的圣谕有关

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You must love loyal advisors and servants, whether they be foreigners or our own people, and spare no effort to serve the common good."

你一定要热爱俄国那些忠诚的大臣和臣民,不管他是来自外国还是国内,同时你也必须不遗余力地为公共利益服务"

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It is not a subject of anybody, not Corinth or anybody else.

它不是科林斯或任何人的臣民

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There are only subjects, people who are subject either to a god, or to the king, or to a representative of the god, or to a chieftain or whoever, but somebody in a sense owns them all, but nobody owns a citizen.

那时只有所谓的臣民,也就是那些屈从于上帝,国王,代表上帝以及部落首领或者类似的人,从某种意义上讲,人们可以完全拥有臣民,但却无人拥有公民

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