He described her majesty as a paragon of excellences; as the depositary of all the monikin virtues, and the model of her sex.

"If she, who was so justly celebrated for the gifts of charity, meekness, religion, justice, and submission to feminine duties, had no memory," he asked leave to demand, in the name of God, who had?
"Without a memory, in what manner was this illustrious personage to recall her duties to her royal consort, her duties to her royal offspring, her duties to her royal self?
Memory was peculiarly a royal attribute; and without its possession no one could properly be deemed of high and ancient lineage.

Memory referred to the past, and the consideration due to royalty was scarcely ever a present consideration, but a consideration connected with the past.

We venerated the past.

Time was divided into the past, present, and future.