The priests were punished, after they had been robbed of their all, not for their vices, but for their virtues and their piety, which made them an honor to their sacred profession, and to that nature of which we ought to be proud, since they belong to it.
Burke defends the virtues of priests who suffered for their integrity.
Share
More from Edmund Burke
Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.
If kings who did not owe their crown to the choice of their people had no title to make laws, what will become of the statute De tallagio non concedendo? of the Petition of Right? of the act of Habeas Corpus?
The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.
Other voices in this conversation
