A strong and marked difference between the two nations ought to be shown, before we can admit a constant, affected panegyric, a standing, annual commemoration, to be without any tendency to an example.
Burke calls for a clear distinction between nations before accepting constant praise as a valid example, emphasizing the need for critical analysis.
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Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.
To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.
It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.
Never did a state, in any case, enrich itself by the confiscations of the citizens.
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