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entirely attached to the court; the ecclesiastics,retained by like motives, added the sanction ofreligion to the principles of civil policy : Thatin England a great part of the landed propertybelonged either to the yeomanry or middlinggentry; the king had few offices to bestow; andcould not himself even subsist, much less maintainan army, except by the voluntary supplies of hisparliament : That if he had an army on foot,yet, if composed of Englishmen, they wouldnever be prevailed on to promote ends, whichthe people so much feared and hated: That theRoman catholics in England were not thehundredth part of the nation , and in Scotlandnot the two hundredth ; and it seemed against allcommon sense to hope , by one part, to governninety-nine, who were of contrary sentiments anddispositions: And that foreign troops, if few*would tend only to inflame hatred and discon-tent; and how to raise and bring over at once,or to maintain many, it was very difficult toimagine. To these reasonings Temple added theauthority of Gourville, a Frenchman, for whom,he knew, the king had entertained a great esteem.“ A king of England, " said Gourville , “who“ will be the man of his people , is the greatest“ king in the world : But if he will be any thing“ more, he is nothing at all.” The king heard,at first, this discourse with some impatience; butbeing a dextrous dissembler, he seemed movedat last, and laying his hand on Temple’s, said,with an appearing cordiality, “ And I \yill be" the tnan of my people.”

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