From this their restless desire of an overruling influence, they bent a very great part of their designs and efforts to revive the old French party, which was a democratic party, in Holland, and to make a revolution there.
Burke outlines the efforts of a faction to revive a democratic party in Holland as part of their broader political ambitions.
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Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.
I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.
This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.
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