But this is the very first time that any man or set of men were hardy enough to attempt to lay the ground of confidence in them by an acknowledgment of their own falsehood, fraud, hypocrisy, treachery, heterodox doctrine, persecution, and cruelty.
Burke criticizes the audacity of the Regicides to seek trust while acknowledging their past treachery.
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