To those who do not love to contemplate the fall of human greatness, I do not know a more mortifying spectacle than to see the assembled majesty of the crowned heads of Europe waiting as patient suitors in the antechamber of Regicide.
Burke reflects on the humiliation of monarchs waiting for recognition from revolutionary leaders.
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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.
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Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.
But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.
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