Your settlement may be at hand; But that it is still at some distance is more likely. The French may be yet to go through more transmigrations. They may pass, as one of our Poets says, "thro' many varieties of untried being,” before their State obtains its final form. (Edmund Burke)

Your settlement may be at hand; But that it is still at some distance is more likely. The French may be yet to go through more transmigrations. They may pass, as one of our Poets says, "thro' many varieties of untried being,” before their State obtains its final form.

Edmund Burke

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