The great army of the indolent good, the people who lead excellent lives and never use their reason, took violent alarm.

The timorous, the weak-minded, the bigoted, were suddenly awakened to a sense of what they owed to themselves.

Burke gave them the key which enabled them to interpret the Revolution in harmony with their usual ideas and their temperament.
Reaction quickly rose to a high pitch.

One preacher in a parish church in the neighbourhood of London celebrated the anniversary of the restoration of King Charles II.

by a sermon, in which the pains of eternal damnation were confidently promised to political disaffection.
Romilly, mentioning to a friend that the _Reflections_ had got into a fourteenth edition, wondered whether Burke was not rather ashamed of his success.