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The courtiers were too happy to be able to substitute a board which they knew would be useless in the place of one that they feared would be dangerous.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “The courtiers were too happy to be able to substitute a board which they knew would be useless in the place of one that…”
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Burke critiques the motivations behind the establishment of a board that he believed would be ineffective.
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