I have done a great deal for you; this is the jackal's portion; you have been the lion; I have been endeavoring to prog for you; I am your bribe-pander, your factor of corruption, exposing myself to every kind of scorn and ignominy, to insults even from you.
Burke uses a vivid metaphor to describe the role of an individual in corruption, highlighting the moral degradation involved.
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Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.
They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.
But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.
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