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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

CHAPTER XV
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There were probably not in the kingdom two noblemen possessed of such an income.

But no income would satisfy the greediness of those who governed her.

She repeatedly contracted debts which James repeatedly discharged, not without expressing much surprise and displeasure.
The Revolution opened to the Churchills a new and boundless prospect of gain.

The whole conduct of their mistress at the great crisis had proved that she had no will, no judgment, no conscience, but theirs.

To them she had sacrificed affections, prejudices, habits, interests.


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