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The Works Of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IX. (of 12)

PART IX
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The parties continued in the camp; but there was another _remora_.

To remove a nabob and to create a revolution is not easy: houses are strong who have sons grown up with vigor and fitness for the command of armies.

They are not easily overturned by removing the principal, unless the secondary is got rid of: and if this _remora_ could be removed, everything was going on in a happy way in the business.

This plan, which now (that is, about the month of July) began to get into great ripeness and forwardness, Mr.
Holwell urged forward, Mr.Vansittart being hourly expected.
I do not know whether I am going to state a thing, though it is upon the records, which will not have too theatrical an appearance for the grave state in which we are.

But here it is,--the difficulty, the knot, and the solution, as recorded by the parties themselves.


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