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 leening that plendour of character which once illuminated the kingdom, then dazzled, and afterwards inflamed it; and for whom it will be happy if the nation hall at lat dimis him to nameles obcurity with that equipoie of blame and praie which Corneille allows to Richlieu, a man who, I think, had much of his merit, and many of his faults.

puh advantages too far is neither generous nor jut. Had we inited on a conceion of antecedent right, it may not mibecome us either as moralits or politicians, to conider what Grimaldi could have anwered. We have already, he might ay, granted you the whole effect of right, and have not denied you the name. We have not aid that the right was ours before this