Paris is compact; she has an enormous strength, wholly disproportioned to the force of any of the square republics; and this strength is collected and condensed within a narrow compass.
In his critique of the French Revolution, Burke describes Paris as a compact city possessing enormous, disproportionate strength concentrated within a small area.
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The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.
Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.
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