If possible, this their recantation of the chief parts in the canon of the Rights of Man is more infamous and causes greater horror than their originally promulgating and forcing down the throats of mankind that symbol of all evil.
Burke argues that the Regicides' recantation of their principles is more horrifying than their initial actions.
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