Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Occasioned by His Reflections on the Revolution (Classic Reprint)

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If the pr1ncrp1es that Mr. Burke now ad vances (though it is by no means withper feet confil'tency) be admitted, mankind are always to be governed as they have been governed, without any enquiry into' the naiure, or origin, of their governments. The cimice of tbe people is not to be confidered, and though their happinefs is aukwardly enough made by him the end of govern ment 5 yet, having no choice, they are not to be the judges of what is for their good. On thefe principles, the church, or the flare, once efiablithed, muf't for ever remain the fame. This is evidently the real fcope of Mr. Burke's pamphlet, the principles of it being, in fact, no other than thofe of pefli've ooedz'ence and non-rcyifiance, peculiar to the Tories and the friends of arbitrary power, fuch as were echoed from the pulpits of all the high church party, in the reigns of the Stuarts, and of (meen Anne. Let them, however, be produced again, and let us fee in What manner they will be treated by the good fenfe and fpirit of Englilhmen at the prefent day.

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