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Thursday, July 24, 2008

The Inexorable Tyrant

To Hume, it is Gloucester who is "the inexorable tyrant." He describes Gloucester in this way after Gloucester refuses to pardon Simon Burley, even after queen Anne pleads with him on her knees for three hours.
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