They are put out of all dispute by the thanks which, formally and as it were officially, they issue, in order to recommend and to promote the circulation of the most atrocious and treasonable libels against all the hitherto cherished objects of the love and veneration of this people.
Edmund Burke: “They are put out of all dispute by the thanks which, formally and as it were officially, they issue, in order to…”
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Burke condemns the faction for promoting treasonous libels against cherished national values.
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