After all, if the king were to bring himself to echo this new kind of address, to adopt it in terms, and even to take the appellation of Servant of the People as his royal style, how either he or we should be much mended by it I cannot imagine.
Burke questions the value of the king adopting the title 'Servant of the People' and its implications.
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