Edmund Burke: “Observe his pity for a woman who had suffered such treatment from the servants of the Company (a parcel of…”

It therefore secures both an hereditary crown and an hereditary allegiance.

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.

They threw a politic, well-wrought veil over every circumstance tending to weaken the rights which in the meliorated order of succession they meant to perpetuate, or which might furnish a precedent for any future departure from what they…

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.