On the recordJanuary 1, 1790
It has made a degrading pensionary establishment, to which no man of liberal ideas or liberal condition will destine his children.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke criticizes the French revolutionary government for establishing a degrading pension system for the clergy that would deter respectable individuals.
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