Note 471 — TABLE DES MATIÈRES CONTENUES DANS LE DEUXIÈME VOLUME.
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: What greater debasement can there be to Royal dignity, whose towering and stedfast heights rest upon the immovable foundations of justice and heroic virtue, than to chain it, in a dependance of subsisting or ruining, to the painted battlements and gaudy rottenness of prelatry, which wants but one puff of the king to blow them down like a paste-board house built of court cards.