That the Lord is graciously pleased sometimes to privilege his people with very remarkable tokens of his gracious presence.

10 Since reason, then, can privilege a tear, Manhood, uncensured, pay that tribute here Upon this noble urn.

This representative system has in its turn impressed itself upon the nations which derived their political ideas from Rome and has afforded the method through which popular liberty has been winning forward in its struggle against royal and aristocratic power and privilege the world over.