Such robbery must necessarily have made all property insecure; and a statesman must be short-sighted indeed who imagines that what makes property insecure can really make society prosperous.
But it is vain to expect that men who are inflamed by anger, who are suffering distress, and who fancy that it is in their power to obtain immediate relief from their distresses at the expense of those who have excited their anger, will reason as calmly as the historian who, biassed neither by interest nor passion, reviews the events of a past age.
The public burdens were heavy.

To whatever extent the grants of royal domains were revoked, those burdens would be lightened.

Some of the recent grants had undoubtedly been profuse.

Some of the living grantees were unpopular.

A cry was raised which soon became formidably loud.