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** See note I, at the end of the volume.
Each party was now willing to throw on its antagonist the odium of commencing a civil war; but both of them prepared for an event which they deemed inevitable.

To gain the people's favor and good opinion was the chief point on both sides.

Never was there a people less corrupted by vice, and more actuated by principle, than the English during that period: never were there individuals who possessed more capacity, more courage, more public spirit, more disinterested zeal.

The infusion of one ingredient in too large a proportion had corrupted all these noble principles, and converted them into the most virulent poison.

To determine his choice in the approaching contests, every man hearkened with avidity to the reasons proposed on both sides.