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 | | The other was an agitation set on foot by the Legitimists in the _Conseils generaux_ for the repeal of the law of May 31. |
 | | The Legitimists are their territorial successors; they are the successors in their manners, in their loyalty, and in their prejudices of _caste_; but they are not their successors in cultivation, or intelligence, or energy, or, therefore, in influence. |
 | | Now it can throw off the Bonapartes without occasioning a disputed succession.' 'When you say,' I asked, 'that the Legitimists are not the successors of the old aristocracy in cultivation, intelligence, or energy, do you mean to ascribe to them positive or relative inferiority in these qualities?' 'In energy,' answered Tocqueville, 'their deficiency is positive. |
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