Excerpt from Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution Hitherto Mr. Burke has been mif'taken and difappornted in the opinions he had formed of the affairs of F1ance; but fuch 13 the ingenuity of his hope, or the malignancy of his defpair, that it futniihcs him with new pretences to go on. There was a t1me when it was impofiible to make Mr. Burke believe there would be any revolution in France. His opinion then was, that the French had neither fpirit to undertake it, nor fortuude'to fupport it; and now that there is one, he fecks an efc'ape by condemning rt. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.