Burke has outraged his own imagination, and seeks to work upon that of his readers, they are very well calculated for theatrical representation, where facts are manufactured for the sake of show, and accommodated to produce, through the weakness of sympathy, a weeping effect.
Paine criticizes Edmund Burke's dramatic and emotional writing style in "Rights of Man," arguing that Burke prioritizes theatrical effect over factual accuracy.
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