The same principle ought to guide us in the religious part: conforming the mode, not to our particular ideas, (for in that point we have no ideas in common,) but to what will best promote the great, general ends of the alliance.
Burke suggests that religious practices should align with the broader goals of the alliance rather than individual beliefs.
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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.
The only difference among their financial factions is on the greater or the lesser quantity of assignats to be imposed on the public sufferance.
It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.
Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.
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