They brought themselves into all the calamities they suffer, not that through them they might obtain a British constitution; they plunged themselves headlong into those calamities to prevent themselves from settling into that constitution, or into anything resembling it.
Burke reflects on how the revolutionaries brought calamity upon themselves while trying to avoid a stable British constitution.
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