This system has very many partisans in every country in Europe, but particularly in England, where they are already formed into a body, comprehending most of the Dissenters of the three leading denominations.
Burke observes the growing influence of dissenting groups in England as part of a broader European trend.
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They have not more notes in their song than the cuckoo; though, far from the softness of that harbinger of summer and plenty, their voice is as harsh and as ominous as that of the raven.
It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.
This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.
They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.
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