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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I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.
The improvements of the National Assembly are superficial, their errors fundamental.
But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.
They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.
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