What but that blindness of heart which arises from the frenzy of civil contention could have made any persons conceive the present situation of the British affairs as an object of triumph to themselves or of congratulation to their sovereign?
Burke critiques the mindset of those who celebrate the turmoil in British affairs during a time of civil strife.
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