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Edmund Burke: They differ nothing from all the preceding usurpations, but that to the same odium a good deal more of contempt is…

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They differ nothing from all the preceding usurpations, but that to the same odium a good deal more of contempt is added.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke asserts that the current usurpations are met with both odium and contempt.

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