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Here a repeal is promised,--promised without condition,--and while your authority was actually resisted.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Here a repeal is promised,--promised without condition,--and while your authority was actually resisted.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke highlights a promise of repeal made without conditions, despite ongoing resistance to authority.
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