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But by sleight of hand the Jacobins are clean vanished, and it is France we have got under our cup.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “But by sleight of hand the Jacobins are clean vanished, and it is France we have got under our cup.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke uses metaphor to describe the disappearance of revolutionary figures in favor of a new France.
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