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The descendants of a Throne, once the loftiest in the world, reduced to stipulate with the servants of traders for subsistence the dethronement of Princes converted into a commercial transaction, and a ledger-account kept of the profits of Revolutions the sanctity of Zenanus violated by search-warrants, and the chicaneries of English Law transplanted, in their most mischievous luxuriance, into the holy and peaceful shades of the Bramins, such events as these, in which the poetry and the prose of life, its pompous illusions and mean realities, are mingled up so sadly and fantastically together, were of a nature, particularly when recent, to lay hold of the imagination as well as the feelings, and to furnish eloquence with those strong lights and shadows, of which her most animated pictures are composed.
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