Fielding's politics are so absurd.
The five good emperors?
Really?
The ideal of benevolent despotism?
And yet, he turns it on its head, and in the same chapter denies scriptural warrant to any absolute monarchy but that of the Devil in hell.
A live issue, in his day of the Jacobite Rebellion supported by widespread Tory (overwhelmingly Protestant) treason and an alliance of the French monarchy with Scotch Presbyterians in support of a Catholic Pretender.
Bk 12, ch 12.
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