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Let it be considered, that this argument goes as strongly against connivance, which you allow, as against toleration, which you reject.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Let it be considered, that this argument goes as strongly against connivance, which you allow, as against toleration…”
Editor's note · Context
Burke asserts that the argument against toleration also applies to the concept of connivance.
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