Letter

 1 VIII | prescribe limits to the power of kings by resisting them; and who,
 2 IX   |        are so little understood. Kings, indeed, were not absolute
 3 IX   |         by monks, they made even kings tremble, deposed and assassinated
 4 IX   |          the lawful authority of kings and of the people?~Happily,
 5 IX   |      which the divisions between kings and the nobles gave to empires,
 6 IX   |         which was indeed to make kings dependent on the Lords;
 7 IX   |         that island, had not the kings created new barons from
 8 XVII |         general live longer than kings are found to reign, so that
 9 XVII |        and should know that nine kings had reigned over a nation;
10 XVII |      other, about twenty. Thirty kings of England have swayed the
11 XVII |         equally among the thirty kings, give to every one a reign
12 XVII |      half very near. Sixty-three kings of France have sat upon
13 XXIII|        mausoleums of the English kings, but the monuments which
14 XXIII|         the laws, is rewarded by kings, cultivated and encouraged