There is another article which I have just touched, but which I must do more than barely notice, upon account of the evil example of it: I mean the taking great sums of money, under pretence of an entertainment.
Burke highlights the moral issues surrounding the acceptance of large sums of money under false pretenses.
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No experience has taught us that in any other course or method than that of an hereditary crown our liberties can be regularly perpetuated and preserved sacred as our hereditary right.
Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.
An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.
But the course of succession is the healthy habit of the British Constitution.
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