The merit of the grantee whom he derives from was that of being a prompt and greedy instrument of a levelling tyrant, who oppressed all descriptions of his people, but who fell with particular fury on everything that was great and noble.
Burke condemns the merit of a grantee who served a tyrant, highlighting the moral implications of power.
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A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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