Thoughts On the Cause of the Present Discontents ...
Thoughts On the Cause of the Present Discontents ...
Edmund Burke
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gi^qtlemen, fo jealoiis pf ariftpcrapy^ ipake no comjplaints THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS. 29 complaints of the power of thofe Peers (neither few not inconfiderablc) who^arc always in the train df a Court, and whofe whole weight muft be confide^ed as a portion of the fettled influ- ence of the Crown. This is all fafc and right ; but if fome Peers (I am very ibrry they are not as many as they ought to be) fet themfelves, in the great concern of Peers and Commons, againft a back- flairs influence and ...clandeftine government, then the alarm begins ; then thes cpnftitution is in danger of being forced into aa triftocracy. I reft a little the longer on this Court topick, becaufe it was much iniifted upon at the time of the great change, and has been fince frequently revived by many of the agents of that party : for, \Vhilft they are terrifying the great and opulent with the horrors of mob-government, they are by other managers attempting (though hitherto with little fuccefs) to alarm the people with a phantom of tyranny in the Nobles.
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