We ought to recollect the poison which, under the name of antidotes against Popery, and such like mountebank titles, has been circulated from our pulpits and from our presses, from the heads of the Church of England and the heads of the Dissenters.
Burke criticizes the harmful rhetoric against Catholics that has been propagated by religious leaders.
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