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Updated: May 1, 2025

I should only stipulate that these new Mess-Johns in robes and coronets should keep some sort of bounds in the democratic and levelling principles which are expected from their titled pulpits. The new evangelists will, I dare say, disappoint the hopes that are conceived of them.

Edmund Burke - Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke

I should only stipulate that these new Mess-Johns in robes and coronets should keep some sort of bounds in the democratic and levelling principles which are expected from their titled pulpits. The new evangelists will, I dare say, disappoint the hopes that are conceived of them.

Edmund Burke - The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)