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Happily it is impossible. Should invasion end in her being only republicanized, I know not on what principles a true republican of our country could lament it." Jefferson to Richard M. Johnson, March 10, 1808. Works, vol. v. p. 257. London Times of August 6, quoted in N.Y. Evening Post of Oct. 10, 1808. Annals of Congress, 1808-09, p. 1032.
They began by limiting the authority of the Doge, who, though elected for life, was in 1032 forbidden to associate his son in the supreme office of the state. In 1172 the election of the Doge was transferred from the people to the Grand Council, who, as a co-opting body, tended to become a close aristocracy.
See, also, the damaging comments thereon by Rives, Life of Madison, i. 63, 64. 4 Am. Arch. i. 928. 4 Ibid. i. 947. Ibid. 4 Am. Arch. i. 949, 950. Ibid. i. 953. Ibid. 858. Ibid. i. 963. Hildreth, iii. 52. 4 Am. Arch. i. 1032. 4 Am. Arch. i. 1022. Ibid. i. 1145. Ibid. i. 1254. Ibid. i. 1062. Ibid. i. 1139. Ibid. i. 1171. 4 Am. Arch. i. 1340. 4 Am. Arch. ii. 167, 168.
These five temples, with their courtyards and cloisters, are said to have cost $90,000,000 and to have occupied fourteen years in building, from 1032 to 1046 A. D. Mount Abu is the headquarters of the Rajputana administration, the hot weather station for the British troops, and the favorite summer resort of the European colonies of western India.
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