On the record
They differ nothing from all the preceding usurpations, but that to the same odium a good deal more of contempt is added.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgThey differ nothing from all the preceding usurpations, but that to the same odium a good deal more of contempt is added.
Burke asserts that the current usurpations are met with both odium and contempt.
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