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They tore the reputation of the clergy to pieces by their infuriated declamations and invectives, before they lacerated their bodies by their massacres.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “They tore the reputation of the clergy to pieces by their infuriated declamations and invectives, before they lacerated…”
Editor's note · Context
Burke vividly depicts the violent rhetoric used against clergy leading up to their physical persecution.
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