It is one that on many accounts cannot be too much regretted, and the rather, as it was the sole cause of a scarcity in that article which arose from the proceedings of men themselves: I mean the stop put to the distillery.
Burke regrets the impact of human actions on the scarcity of food, particularly due to restrictions on distilling.
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In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.
Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.
To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.
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