If their passion or their avarice drove the Tartar lords to acts of rapacity or tyranny, there was time enough, even in the short life of man, to bring round the ill effects of an abuse of power upon the power itself.
Burke suggests that even tyrannical actions can have consequences that affect the power itself over time.
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But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.
But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.
If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.
An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.
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