He observed, that ours was the only instance of a great empire in which the most distant parts and members had been as well governed as the metropolis and its vicinage, but that the Americans were going to lose the means which secured to them this rare and precious advantage.
Burke notes the unique governance of the British Empire and the potential loss of that advantage for the Americans.
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But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.
Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.
The ceremony of cashiering kings, of which these gentlemen talk so much at their ease, can rarely, if ever, be performed without force.
But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.
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