Thomas Paine: “Did it not perceive, that in the present crisis, every rational man would be afraid of exposing his fortune?”

But from such opposition the French Revolution, instead of suffering, receives an homage.

It was a sort of new form of government that insensibly served to put the old one out of sight and to unhinge it from the superstitious authority of antiquity.

Burke's Book is easily accounted for.--When a man in a wrong cause attempts to steer his course by anything else than some polar truth or principle, he is sure to be lost.

The meaning, then, good people, of all this, is: That government is governed by no principle whatever; that it can make evil good, or good evil, just as it pleases.