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Let us see, my Lords, what use he makes of this power,--how he justifies the bounty of Fortune, bestowing on him this strange and anomalous conquest.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke questions the legitimacy of power and its use in the context of colonial conquests.
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