He was prepared to show, that, in their conduct, the Assembly had directly violated not only every sound principle of government, but every one, without exception, of their own false or futile maxims, and indeed every rule they had pretended to lay down for their own direction.
Burke is prepared to demonstrate that the French Assembly has violated fundamental principles of governance.
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