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We have, farther, a confiderable ground of hope 

 of reformation, in the afFeâ:ion which we bear to 

 our Kings. With us, the love of Country is one 

 and the fame thing with the love of our Prince. 

 This is the only bond which unites us, and which, 

 oftener than once, has prevented our falling to 

 pieces. On the other hand. Nations are the real 

 monuments of Kings. All thofe monuments of 

 ftone, by which fo many Princes have dreamt 

 of immortalizing their names, frequently ferved 

 only to render them deteftable. Pliny tells us, 

 that the Egyptians of his time curfed the me- 

 mory of the Kings of Egypt, who had built 

 the pyramids; and, befides, their names had funk 

 into oblivion. The modern Egyptians allege, 

 that they were raifed by the Devil, undoubtedly 

 from the fentiment of the diflrefs which rearing 

 thofe edifices muft have coft Mankind. Our own 

 People frequently afcribes the fame origin to our 

 ancient bridges, and to the great roads cut through 

 rocks, whofe fummits are loft in the clouds. To 

 no purpofe are medals ftruck for their ufe; they 

 underftand nothing about emblems and infcrip- 

 tions. But it is the heart of Man, on which the 

 imprefTion ought to be made, by means of benefits 

 conferred ; the ftamp there imprinted is never to 

 be effaced. The People have loft the memory of 

 their Monarchs who prefided in councils, but they 



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