When the Jacobins of France, by their studied, deliberated, catalogued files of murders with the poniard, the sabre, and the tribunal, have shocked whatever remained of human sensibility in our breasts, then it was they distinguished the resources of party policy.
Burke critiques the violent actions of the Jacobins during the French Revolution, emphasizing their impact on human sensibility.
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