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Edmund Burke: On the part of the Regicides these declarations could not be entirely passed by without notice; but in that notice they…

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On the part of the Regicides these declarations could not be entirely passed by without notice; but in that notice they discovered still more clearly the bottom of their character.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke notes that the Regicides' responses reveal their true nature.

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