If he learns this lesson from such an object, and from such teachers, the man may remain, but the king is deposed.
Edmund Burke: “If he learns this lesson from such an object, and from such teachers, the man may remain, but the king is deposed.”
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Burke asserts that a king must carry the memory of tragic events in his heart to be worthy of his position.
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