Thomas Paine: “It is not the policy of Europe to suffer the extinction of any power, but only to lop off, or prevent its dangerous…”

The Parliaments on their part insisted that they had not only a right to remonstrate, but to reject; and on this ground they were always supported by the nation.

He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none--a courtier.

A knowledge of the practice was then joined to the theory; and all that was wanting to give it real existence was opportunity.

It was a sort of new form of government that insensibly served to put the old one out of sight and to unhinge it from the superstitious authority of antiquity.