You would not disgrace the British peerage, you would not disgrace this court of justice, you would not disgrace human reason itself, by confiscating, on such evidence, the meanest property of the meanest wretch.
Burke warns against the disgrace that would come from confiscating property based on weak evidence, appealing to reason and justice.
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