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Rh thoe Margraves, thoe Peers, thoe Barons, thoe petty Tyrants, who often conteted with their Sovereigns for the poils of whole nations. Thee were birds of prey, fighting with an Eagle for Doves, whoe blood the Victorious was to uck. Every nation, intead of being govern'd by one Mater, was trampled upon by an hundred Tyrants. The priets oon play'd a part among them. Before this, it had been the fate of the Gauls, the Germans and the Britons, to be always govern'd by their Druids, and the Chiefs of their villages, an ancient kind of Barons, not o tyrannical as their ucceors. Thee Druids pretended to be mediators between God and man. They enacted laws, they fulminated their excommunications, and entenc'd to death. The Bihops ucceeded, by inenible degrees, to their temporal authority in the Goth and Vandal government. The Popes et themelves at their head, and arm'd with their Briefs, their Bulls, and reinforc'd by Monks, they made even Kings tremble; depos'd and aainated them at pleaure, and employ'd every

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