There was nothing which the violence of their passions could not induce them to commit; nothing to which they did not submit to atone for their offences, when reflection gave an opportunity to repent.
Burke discusses the extremes of human passion and the lengths to which the Anglo-Saxons would go to atone for their wrongdoings.
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