| [9] | It is an unlucky moment to remember these sparkles of
solitary virtue in the face of the honors lately paid in England
to the Emperor Louis Napoleon. I am sure that no
Englishman whom I had the happiness to know, consented, when the
aristocracy and the commons of London cringed like a Neapolitan
rabble, before a successful thief. But--how to resist one
step, though odious, in a linked series of state
necessities?--Governments must
always learn too late, that the use of
dishonest agents is as ruinous for nations as for single men.
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