Our complexion is such, that we are palled with enjoyment, and stimulated with hope,--that we become less sensible to a long-possessed benefit from the very circumstance that it is become habitual.
Burke discusses human nature's tendency to take long-held benefits for granted while yearning for new hopes.
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In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.
The only difference among their financial factions is on the greater or the lesser quantity of assignats to be imposed on the public sufferance.
This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.
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