It must break down from inherent rottenness."
But what signifies the arrangement of rottenness ?"
In 1868 the government of Queen Isabella collapsed by its own rottenness.
Yet, despite this inward rottenness, Hungary, for nearly twenty years after the death of Matthias, enjoyed an undeserved prestige abroad, due entirely to the reputation which that great monarch had won for her.
The career on which Colbert now entered must not be judged without constant remembrance of the utter rottenness of the previous financial administration.
