Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution (Classic Reprint)

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Hitherto Mr. Burke has been mif'taken and difappornted in the opinions he had formed of the affairs of F1ance; but fuch 13 the ingenuity of his hope, or the malignancy of his defpair, that it futniihcs him with new pretences to go on. There was a t1me when it was impofiible to make Mr. Burke believe there would be any revolution in France. His opinion then was, that the French had neither fpirit to undertake it, nor fortuude'to fupport it; and now that there is one, he fecks an efc'ape by condemning rt.

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