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I am a man: I felt for the melancholy reverse of human affairs in the fall of the first power in the world.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “I am a man: I felt for the melancholy reverse of human affairs in the fall of the first power in the world.”
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Burke reflects on the broader human implications of the decline of a powerful nation.
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