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Edmund Burke: How can I help it, if this royal propagandist will preach the doctrine of the Rights of Men?

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How can I help it, if this royal propagandist will preach the doctrine of the Rights of Men?
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Edmund Burke

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Burke critiques a royal figure for promoting the ideology of individual rights against monarchy.

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