I hope their partisans in England (to whom I rather attribute very inconsiderate conduct than the ultimate object in this detestable design) will succeed neither in the pillage of the ecclesiastics nor in the introduction of a principle of popular election to our bishoprics and parochial cures.
Burke hopes that the partisans in England will fail in their attempts to undermine the Church through popular election.
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The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.
By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.
The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
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