“ Is it among the rights of man to pay tribute to his equals? ”
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). copy citation
| Author | Edmund Burke |
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| Source | Reflections on the Revolution in France |
| Topic | tribute right |
| Date | 1790 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reflections_on_the_Revolution_in_France |
Context
“manner, as you do to the demands of these insolent burghers, relative to
distinctions and titles of honor, by which neither they nor we are affected
at all? But we find you pay more regard to their fancies than to our
necessities. Is it among the rights of man to pay tribute to his equals?
Before this measure of yours, we might have thought we were not perfectly
equal. We might have entertained some old, habitual, unmeaning
prepossession in favor of those landlords; but we cannot conceive with what”
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