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The French system is in the mean time, by many active agents out of doors, rapturously praised; the British Constitution is coldly tolerated.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke contrasts the praise of the French system with the indifference towards the British Constitution, emphasizing a disparity in public sentiment.
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