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Successor

.—All monarchs are infected with the strange wish, that their successors may turn out bad princes. Good Kings desire it, as they imagine that their glory will thus appear the most splendid; and the bad desire it, as they consider such Kings will serveto countenance their own misdemeanours.

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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.

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Successor