Burke's book has the appearance of being written as instruction to the French nation; but if I may permit myself the use of an extravagant metaphor, suited to the extravagance of the case, it is darkness attempting to illuminate light.
In "Rights of Man," Paine uses a vivid metaphor to criticize Edmund Burke's arguments against the French Revolution.
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