Even the clergy are to receive their miserable allowance out of the depreciated paper, which is stamped with the indelible character of sacrilege, and with the symbols of their own ruin, or they must starve.
In his denunciation of the French Revolution, Burke condemns the revolutionary government's financial policies, particularly the issuance of depreciated paper currency to compensate the dispossessed clergy.
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But the king of Great Britain obeys no other person; all other persons are individually, and collectively too, under him, and owe to him a legal obedience.
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