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Edmund Burke: “Therefore we fix upon him fraud, deceit, and the production of false evidence, after the woman had desired to have the…”

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Therefore we fix upon him fraud, deceit, and the production of false evidence, after the woman had desired to have the man who was the evidence against her examined upon the spot.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke accuses a party of fraud and deceit in the handling of evidence against a woman seeking justice.

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