But I hope, as you will sympathize with the great on account of their condition, that you will sympathize with all mankind on the ground of the common condition of humanity which belongs to us all; therefore I hope your Lordships will not consider the calumny of Mr.
Burke appeals to the House of Lords to show compassion for all humanity, not just the powerful.
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The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.
But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.
This is the spirit of our Constitution, not only in its settled course, but in all its revolutions.
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