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1822 June 30
If when the Monarch is a madman, the people are not
worse afflicted than they are seen to be if is because in the name
of the madman it is not by the madman himself that the determinations
are taken by which the operations of government
are directed but by the a host of courtiers whom accident
has thrown in his way in such sort as to have
become chosen by him to be made the instruments of the
will in the several departments; or rather and when is more
simple some one of them who has the had the good fortune
to persuade him to produce in his mind the notion
that by the choice of that one instrument his dreams are
likely to receive a more extensive gratification than by
the choice of any other individual: among those several desires,
the of case acting at by always with predominant
influence: acting as President as it were as President of the
Council of Desires, which person individual as their Prime Minister
exercising the powers of the Monarch and him of all the
whole of the cares of government. parts subject make these
Identifier: | JB/036/115/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
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a14 / b7 / c1 / d8 / e8 |
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