The disastrous events which have followed one upon another in a long, unbroken, funereal train, moving in a procession that seemed to have no end,--these were not the principal causes of our dejection.
Burke reflects on the continuous series of disastrous events that contribute to a sense of despair.
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Do they mean to attaint and disable backwards all the kings that have reigned before the Revolution, and consequently to stain the throne of England with the blot of a continual usurpation?
Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.
No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.
Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?
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