If to this be added an expulsion from their habitations and a confiscation of all their goods, I am not sagacious enough to discover how this despotic sport made of the feelings, consciences, prejudices, and properties of men can be discriminated from the rankest tyranny.
Burke critiques the tyrannical nature of actions that disregard the feelings and properties of individuals.
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