Now, if your Lordships will try him by such maxims and principles, he is certainly clear: for there is no manner of doubt that there is nothing he has practised once which he has not practised again; and then the repetition of crimes becomes the means of his indemnity.
Burke critiques the defendant's repeated offenses, suggesting that their history of crimes should not absolve them.
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