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Now the reception is cold indeed; and therefore, as the asylum abroad is destroyed, the hardship at home is doubled.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “Now the reception is cold indeed; and therefore, as the asylum abroad is destroyed, the hardship at home is doubled.”
Editor's note · Context
Burke laments the cold reception of religious refugees and the compounded hardships they face at home.
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