They have seen the French rebel against a mild and lawful monarch, with more fury, outrage, and insult than ever any people has been known to rise against the most illegal usurper or the most sanguinary tyrant.
Burke observes that the French Revolutionaries rebelled against their monarch with unprecedented fury, exceeding reactions to even the most tyrannical rulers.
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