It was the impolitic abolition of their discipline, which exposed them to the wild opinions and conduct that have prevailed amongst the Huguenots.
Edmund Burke: “It was the impolitic abolition of their discipline, which exposed them to the wild opinions and conduct that have…”
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Burke critiques the abolition of discipline among Huguenots, linking it to their subsequent wild opinions and conduct.
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