Is Ireland united to the crown of Great Britain for no other purpose than that we should counteract the bounty of Providence in her favor? and in proportion as that bounty has been liberal, that we are to regard it as an evil, which is to be met with in every sort of corrective?
Burke questions the purpose of Ireland's union with Great Britain in light of Providence's blessings.
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