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Edmund Burke: “It is a topic of consolation which our ordinary of Newgate would be too humane to use to a criminal at the foot of the…”

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It is a topic of consolation which our ordinary of Newgate would be too humane to use to a criminal at the foot of the gallows.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke critiques the insensitivity of using consolation inappropriately, emphasizing a lack of humanity in certain contexts.

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