“his life was simple even to parsimony; his manners void of insolence or ostentation; as a sovereign most humane and solicitous for the well-being of his people . . . the same principles of frugality and expense were observed in the municipal disbursements of his government; far superior himself to magnificence, none of his officers were led to expect more than competence. In personal activity he exceeded all of whom there is record. He met every emergency . . . with instant discernment and unshaken fortitude. . . . Respected as the guardian of the nation he had founded he moved everywhere
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