"When they are habitually convinced that no evil can be acceptable, either in the act or the permission, to him whose essence is good, they will be better able to extirpate out of the minds of all magistrates, civil, ecclesiastical, or military, any thing that bears the least resemblance to a proud and lawless domination."
Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event
At least 22 entries in the ESTC (1790, 1791, 1792, 1793).<br>
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See Edmund Burke, <u>Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies in London relative to that event. In a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris</u> (London: printed for J. Dodsley, 1790) &lt;<a href="http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?&source=gale&prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=viva_uva&tabID=T001&docId=CW107629894&type=multipage&contentSet=ECCOArticles&version=1.0&docLevel=FASCIMILE">Link to ECCO</a>&gt;&lt<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/K043880.0001.001">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;<br>
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Text from ECCO-TCP and Past Masters.<br>
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Reading <u>Reflections on the Revolution in France</u>, ed. J. G. A. Pocock (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987). [Pocock identifies the definitive edition of Burke's <u>Reflections</u> as William B. Todd's (Rinehart Books, 1959)].