On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
These gentlemen perhaps do not believe a great deal in the miracles of piety; but it cannot be questioned that they have an undoubting faith in the prodigies of sacrilege.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke critiques the French revolutionaries' secularism and their enthusiastic embrace of confiscating church property.
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