On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
It is easy to perceive, by the course of their reasonings, how much they were embarrassed by their contradictory ideas of the rights of men and the privileges of riches.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “It is easy to perceive, by the course of their reasonings, how much they were embarrassed by their contradictory ideas…”
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From his critique of the French Revolution, observing the revolutionaries' difficulty reconciling their ideas of natural rights with the privileges of wealth.
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