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4272. KINGS, Ministers of.—
No race of
kings has ever presented above one man of
common sense in twenty generations. The
best they can do is to leave things to their
ministers; and what are their ministers but a
committee badly chosen? If the king ever
meddles it is to do harm.—
To Benjamin Hawkins. Washington ed. ii, 221.
Ford ed., iv, 426.
(P.
1787)
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