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

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Ten Canadas cannot restore that security for the peace, and for everything valuable to this country, which we have lost along with the affection and the obedience of our colonies.

He is the wise minister, he is the true friend to Britain, who shall be able to restore it.
To return to the security for the peace.

The author tells us, that the original great purposes of the war were more than accomplished by the treaty.

Surely he has experience and reading enough to know, that, in the course of a war, events may happen, that render its original very far from being its principal purpose.

This original may dwindle by circumstances, so as to become not a purpose of the second or even the third magnitude.


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