No longer the sneaking tone of apology; no longer the modest allegations that the commissioner was misinformed;--he boldly accuses the representative of English government of forgery in order to destroy him; he criminates and recriminates, and lays about him without mercy.
Burke critiques the aggressive accusations made against the representative of English government.
Share
More from Edmund Burke
Ill would our ancestors at the Revolution have deserved their fame for wisdom, if they had found no security for their freedom, but in rendering their government feeble in its operations and precarious in its tenure,--if they had been able…
Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.
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.
Other voices in this conversation
