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In spite of his people he resolved to make them great and glorious; to make England, inclined to shrink into her narrow self, the arbitress of Europe, the tutelary angel of the human race.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke describes a leader's ambition to elevate England's status in Europe and beyond, despite popular resistance.
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