France is considered as merely a foreign power, and the seditious English only as a domestic faction.
Edmund Burke: “France is considered as merely a foreign power, and the seditious English only as a domestic faction.”
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Burke critiques the perception of France as merely a foreign adversary, emphasizing the domestic implications of the conflict.
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