I know well that there is a cant language current, about the difference between an exclusion from employments, even to the most rigorous extent, and an exclusion from the natural benefits arising from a man's own industry.
Burke critiques the distinction made in language regarding employment exclusions and the natural benefits of a person's labor.
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