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 ¬a system of oppression and subversion, he had balanced in their own states the princes who opposed him, giving an interest to their people to support him, he might have surrounded him- self with grateful and independent nations, to have guarded and almost to have adored him ; but he left them insulted, pillaged, degraded, and in the hands of their uncontrouled and justly incensed kings, who of course made use of them to destroy him. — They were no lo??ger mercenary, reluctant armies, but nations em- bodied against their oppressors. ¬" From the moment I marked this base and senseless policy I foresaw his ruin, because he was now opposing the progression of a world which, in spite of all obstacles, will advance, because God has ordained it. ¬" It is a grand and useful example, when the ends of men who abuse mighty trusts are thus signally disastrous. — We see distinctly the Divine Providence superintending and judging us, and ¬i when ¬