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The wish of the more exalted Tallien, when he sat in judgment, was, that his sovereign had eighty-three heads, that he might send one to every one of the Departments.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke critiques the revolutionary leaders by comparing them to Tallien's desire for excessive violence against the monarchy.
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