Edmund Burke: “A long habit of humiliation does not seem a very good preparative to manly and vigorous sentiment.”

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!

The only difference among their financial factions is on the greater or the lesser quantity of assignats to be imposed on the public sufferance.

Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.