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⊞ ⊞ If, for its conferring
the supposed benefit
of the people, by
taking power out of
their hands and
lodging it in the hands
of men with opposite
interests unchangeably
opposite to theirs,
in no what is as
yet supposed to be
done is not yet
sufficient, to the
defalcation thus already
made from their
power, add If this division thus made of power between the people and not by taking from the people
another. For the necessary support of so necessary an ingredient in
good government as to Monarchy, establish an heriditary
aristocracy, establish a House of Lords. All those good But, not being
means may be any containing what be blessed with some exclusively dedicated to the service of God, by vows of celibacy, the
men thus made into great men will to the customary extent be
blessed with sons and daughters. The fathers will, all of them have dignity to
support: so will all those children have their own demand their Honorable and Right Honorable children
will all of them be remain honoured with the corresponding burthen.
Here then is a
1823. March 2
Greece
The least you could do for him would be to take from the At the very commencement of his reign the least you could do for
people has been to bear it had been produced to take and
to take from the producers, and from acts his last a mass of property equal to that which
suffices for the subsistence of several thousands of them in the
same time. But no sooner was he if instead of thousands
they were as in England and France myriads, never would the allowance thus made
to him, for never has it be, for never has it any where been found
to be sufficient. No sooner were he installed, than
he would begin to do as George the third did all his life, and as
George the fourth is doing now:⊞ ⊞ George the third third,
who, in the course of his
reign, forced the people
at some different
times to pay his debt:
George the fourth who
on the same career is
outstripping his father. He would begin
debts. The offices placed at his disposal would not be
numerous enough, nor rich enough. To make up for fill up the
deficiency, he would talk of honour and dignity, and
plunge the country into war: he would talk of trade and
commerce, and build nests of offices in lucrative offices
in distant dependencies: he would find colonies conquer that colonies for the sake
of wars: and wage wars for the sake of colonies.
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