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Rulers who have earned this name may justly rank it,if only for its rarity, above every other title of honour—even though, themselves the creators or regenerators of nations, they can look back upon the splendid achievements of the Counts of Nassau, or the long ancestral glories of the House of Savoy.

[23]That Louis intended it to mean this is pretty obvious from his remark about the effacement of the Pyrenees.

[24]The nature of the impediment lives for history in the Jacobite toast which so grimly reflects the brutal passions of the time—"To the little gentleman in black velvet that works underground."

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