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Under the thin veil of prediction, he strongly recommends all the abominable practices which afterwards followed.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Under the thin veil of prediction, he strongly recommends all the abominable practices which afterwards followed.”
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Burke argues that predictions were used to justify immoral actions during the revolution.
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