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Edmund Burke: It is here that your modern legislators have gone deep into the negative series, and sunk even below their own nothing.

On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
It is here that your modern legislators have gone deep into the negative series, and sunk even below their own nothing.
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Edmund Burke

Editor's note · Context

In a scathing critique of the French Revolution, Burke asserts that modern legislators have achieved nothing of value, falling below even their own insignificance.

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