I trust you will not suffer this mockery; I hope this last and ultimate shame will be spared us: for I declare to God, that the defence, and the principles of it, appear to me ten thousand times worse than the act itself.
Burke expresses his strong disapproval of the defense presented in a trial, deeming it worse than the act itself.
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