For the Saxon kings and ruling men embraced religion with so signal, and in their rank so unusual a zeal, that in many instances they even sacrificed to its advancement the prime objects of their ambition.
Burke highlights the unusual zeal of Saxon kings in embracing Christianity, often at great personal cost.
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