Under this miserable government...

the people, soon weary of storms, and abandoned without legal protection to their seducers or to their oppressors, will shatter the helm, or hand it over to some audacious hand that stands ready to seize it." Events occur from month to month in fulfillment of these predictions, and the predictions grow gloomier and more gloomy.

It is a flock of wild birds:[2124] "It is very difficult to guess whereabouts the flock will settle when it flies so wild...

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This unhappy country, bewildered in the pursuit of metaphysical whims, presents to our moral view a mighty ruin.