But it is also remarkable, that even this Hyder Beg Khan never mentions by name the rebellion of the Begums, nor says that he ever heard a word about it: a strong proof that he did not dare, in the face of his country, to give countenance to such a falsehood.
Burke points out that a key witness did not support the claims of rebellion against the Begums.
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The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.
This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.
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