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This comment comes from Burke\u2019s \u201cLetter to a Noble Lord,\u201d addressed to the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale. He is warning that \u201cthe rude inroad of Gallic tumult\u201d will turn on any English nobles who support it: <\/p>\n
\u201cWith them insurrection is the most sacred of revolutionary duties to the state. Ingratitude to benefactors is the first of revolutionary virtues. Ingratitude is indeed their four cardinal virtues compacted and amalgamated into one; and he [Bedford] will find it in everything that has happened since the commencement of the philosophic Revolution to this hour. If he pleads the merit of having performed the duty of insurrection against the order he lives in (God forbid he ever should), the merit of others will be to perform the duty of insurrection against him. If he pleads (again God forbid he should, and I do not suspect he will) his ingratitude to the Crown for its creation of his family, others will plead their right and duty to pay him in kind. They will laugh, indeed they will laugh, at his parchment and his wax.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This comment comes from Burke\u2019s \u201cLetter to a Noble Lord,\u201d addressed to the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale. He is warning that \u201cthe rude inroad of Gallic tumult\u201d will turn on any English nobles who support it: \u201cWith them insurrection is the most sacred of revolutionary duties to the state. Ingratitude to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n