We wish that they may yield to well-ascertained, well-authenticated, and well-secured terms of reconciliation,--not that your Majesty should owe the recovery of your dominions to their total waste and destruction.
Burke wishes for reconciliation terms that do not lead to the destruction of the colonies.
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The improvements of the National Assembly are superficial, their errors fundamental.
They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.
I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.
Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.
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