Good God Almighty! the greatest blockhead, the most ignorant, miserable wretch, a person without either virtue or talents, has nothing to do but to order a clerk to strike a pen through such an account, and then to make a merit of it to you.
Burke criticizes a person's lack of virtue and talent, highlighting the absurdity of their actions.
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