As far as they could look forward they saw only misgovernment, such as that of the last three years, extending through ages.

The cradle of the heir apparent of the crown was surrounded by Jesuits.

Deadly hatred of that Church of which he would one day be the head would be studiously instilled into his infant mind, would be the guiding principle of his life, and would be bequeathed by him to his posterity.

This vista of calamities had no end.

It stretched beyond the life of the youngest man living, beyond the eighteenth century.