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This is a sore evil,--an evil from which, before this time, England was more free than any other nation.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “This is a sore evil,--an evil from which, before this time, England was more free than any other nation.”
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Burke identifies a significant evil that threatens England's freedom, contrasting it with the past.
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