These he divided into the rights of the king's prerogative, the rights of the king's person, and the rights of the king's conscience.

Here he again generalized a little, and in a very happy manner; so well, indeed, as to leave all his hearers in doubt as to what he would next be at; when, by a fierce logical swoop, he descended suddenly on the last of the king's rights, as the one that was most connected with the subject.
He triumphantly showed that the branch of the royal immunities that was chiefly affected by the offence of the prisoner at the bar, was very clearly connected with the rights of the king's conscience.

"The attributes of royalty," observed the sagacious advocate, "are not to be estimated in the same manner as the attributes of the subject.

In the sacred person of the king are centred many, if not most, of the interesting privileges of monikinism.

That royal personage, in apolitical sense, can do no wrong: official infallibility is the consequence.