The characteristic of the English Monarchy is that it retains the feelings by which the heroic kings governed their rude age, and has added the feelings by which the Constitutions of later Greece ruled in more refined ages.
Bagehot discusses the enduring qualities of the English Monarchy, linking it to both ancient and modern governance.
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