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They are well entitled, after a bloody war maintained for eight months against all the powers of anarchy, to speak the sentiments of the Royalists of France.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke acknowledges the legitimacy of the Royalists' voice after enduring a prolonged conflict against anarchy.
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