... equallyjealous of one another, and of the king. Though the tenants and retainers of the clergy, therefore, had both together been less numerous than those of the great lay-lords, and their tenants were ... Geneva, on the con-trary, in the Protestant cantons of Switzerland, in the Protestant countries of Germany, in Holland, in Scotland, in Sweden, and Denmark, the mosteminent men of letters whom ... as the people of each parish preserved the right of electing their1 733 [ 36 ]own pastors, they acted almost always under the influence of the clergy, and generally of the most factious and fanatical...