You have now had an account of the scandalous manufacture of that batch of affidavits which was in the budget of Sir Elijah Impey,--that Pandora's box which I have opened, and out of which has issued every kind of evil.
Burke describes the dubious nature of affidavits produced in a legal case, likening them to a Pandora's box of troubles.
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