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Do I mean, by reading this to your Lordships, to express or intimate an approbation either of the cruelty of the punishment or of the coarse barbarism of the language?
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Edmund Burke
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Burke clarifies that his recounting of these events is not an endorsement of cruelty but a critique of barbarism.
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