It is so perfectly absurd, that, if that or anything like it meets with a serious entertainment in any cabinet, I should think it the effect of what is called a judicial blindness, the certain forerunner of the destruction of all crowns and kingdoms.
Burke expresses concern over the absurdity of certain political entertainments leading to the downfall of monarchies.
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