It was not for nothing that the Assembly has been at such pains to remove the stigma from certain offices, when they were resolved to place the person who had lately been their king in a situation but one degree above the executioner, and in an office nearly of the same quality.
In his critique of the French Revolution, Burke expresses outrage at the National Assembly's deliberate degradation of the king's office.
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I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.
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