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Edmund Burke: This was true liberality; which they returned by endeavoring to confine the reputation of sense, learning, and taste to…

On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
This was true liberality; which they returned by endeavoring to confine the reputation of sense, learning, and taste to themselves or their followers.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke contrasts the world's liberality towards the French intellectuals with their own exclusive and intolerant intellectual practices.

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