In a lucrative point of view they were even more successful than the first, the sum of money realised in the United States having been considerable.
In England they were less popular, even if better attended, the subject chosen having been distasteful to many.

There arose the question whether too much freedom had not been taken with an office which, though it be no longer considered to be founded on divine right, is still as sacred as can be anything that is human.

If there is to remain among us a sovereign, that sovereign, even though divested of political power, should be endowed with all that personal respect can give.

If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.
And this should not depend altogether on personal character, though we know,--as we have reason to know,--how much may be added to the firmness of the feeling by personal merit.

The respect of which we speak should, in the strongest degree, be a possession of the immediate occupant, and will naturally become dim,--or perhaps be exaggerated,--in regard to the past, as history or fable may tell of them.