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How can I help it, if this royal propagandist will preach the doctrine of the Rights of Men?
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “How can I help it, if this royal propagandist will preach the doctrine of the Rights of Men?”
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Burke critiques a royal figure for promoting the ideology of individual rights against monarchy.
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