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It is a topic of consolation which our ordinary of Newgate would be too humane to use to a criminal at the foot of the gallows.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke critiques the insensitivity of using consolation inappropriately, emphasizing a lack of humanity in certain contexts.
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