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5271. MINISTERS (Religious), French.—[continued].

Nor should we wonder
at * * * [the] pressure [for a fixed constitution
in 1788-9] when we consider the monstrous
abuses of power under which * * * the


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[French] people were ground to powder; when
we pass in review * * * the riches, luxury, indolence
and immorality of the clergy.—
Autobiography. Washington ed. i, 86. Ford ed., i, 118.
(1821)