There are of this two famous instances in the knowledge of the present age: I mean that of the Restoration, and that of the Revolution: in both these great events were the regal power and the rights of the people recovered.
Burke cites the Restoration and the Revolution as key events in recovering regal power and people's rights.
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I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.
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