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Price's 1789 Discourse itself celebrates the French Revolution as a continuation of England's 1688 and America's revolutions

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Independent of what Edmund Burke says about it, Richard Price's own peroration in "A Discourse on the Love of Our Country" states (long-s orthography original): "I have lived to fee Thirty Millions of people, indignant and refolute, fpurning at flavery, and demanding liberty with an irrefiftible voice; their king led in triumph, and an arbitrary monarch furrendering himfelf to his fubjefts. — After fharing in the benefits of one Revolution, I have been fpared to be a witnefs to two other Revolutions, both glorious," and continues, addressing the French directly: "the light you have ftruck out, after fetting America free, refledled to France, and there kindled into a blaze that lays defpotifm in afhes."

This passage-cluster — England's 1688 settlement framed as the ancestor of both the American and French Revolutions, the French Revolution welcomed by name as "glorious" — is read directly from Price's own printed text (Third Edition, the same pagination Burke's Reflections cites), independent of Burke's paraphrase of it. It confirms the sermon actually contained the content that later summaries (and the vault's own earlier, Wikipedia-sourced claim) attribute to it, rather than that content being a tidier retelling assembled after the fact. See claim-burke-attacks-price-by-page-cited-verbatim-quotation for Burke's citation of this and adjacent passages.

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