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In the midst of this carnage he thinks of nothing but throwing a veil over it,--which was at once to cover the guilty from punishment, and to extinguish all compassion for the sufferers.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke condemns the efforts to obscure the reality of violence during the Revolution.
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