Edmund Burke: “Tragedy turned, therefore, on melancholy and affecting subjects,--a sort of threnodia,--its passions, therefore…”

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?