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"From Rockinghamite Whig to Anti-Jacobin"
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"A Letter from Mr. Burke to a Member of the National Assembly; In Answer to Some Objections to his Book on French Affairs "
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Date: January 19, 1791
"You know them but at a distance, on the statements of those who always flatter the reigning power, and who, amidst their representations of the grievances, inflame your minds against those who are oppressed. These are amongst the effects of unremitted labour, when men exhaust their attention, bu...
preview | full record— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)