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Here we have formed a new, unlooked-for, monstrous, heterogeneous alliance,--a double-natured monster, republic above and monarchy below.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke critiques the unusual alliance formed during the political upheaval, likening it to a monstrous entity.
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