If one may imagine an eighteenth century John Huss, it is impossible to imagine anyone with sufficient passion to burn him. ... They postured a little as republicans, and sneered at the divine pretensions of monarchy; but the republicanism that appealed to Voltaire was the crowned republicanism of the Britain of those days, in which the king was simply the official head, the first and greatest of the gentlemen. ...

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