It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public, to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Burke, Edmund. Observations on a Late State of the Nation. London: J. Dodsley, 1769.
Burke, Edmund. Observations on a Late State of the Nation. London: J. Dodsley, 1769.
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