I trust I shall hardly be told, in palliation of this shameful system of politics, that the author expresses his sentiments only as doubts.
Edmund Burke: “I trust I shall hardly be told, in palliation of this shameful system of politics, that the author expresses his…”
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Burke challenges the justification of a political system based on doubts expressed by its author.
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