They were not moved from their evident interest by all these arts; nor was it enough to tell them, they were at war, that they must go through with it, and that the cause of the dispute was lost in the consequences.
Burke emphasizes that the English people were not swayed by manipulative tactics to continue a war they deemed lost.
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