He considered the object of his enterprise not to be a precedent for further revolutions, but that it was the great end of his expedition to make such revolutions, so far as human power and wisdom could provide, unnecessary.
Burke interprets the Prince of Orange's intentions as aimed at preventing future revolutions rather than instigating them.
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