The confiscators truly have made some allowance to their victims from the scraps and fragments of their own tables, from which they have been so harshly driven, and which have been so bountifully spread for a feast to the harpies of usury.
Burke criticizes the cruel nature of confiscation, which leaves victims dependent on the very oppressors who harmed them.
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