"Persuaded that all things ought to be done with reference, and referring all to the point of reference to which all should be directed, they think themselves bound, not only as individuals in the sanctuary of the heart, or as congregated in that <!--Page  146--> personal capacity, to renew the memory of their high origin and cast; but also in their corporate character to perform their national homage to the institutor, and author and protector of civil society; without which civil society man could not by any possibility arrive at the perfection of which his nature is capable, nor even make a remote and faint approach to it."
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)].