His innocence, indeed, may at length shine out like the sun, yet for a moment it is under a cloud; his honor is in abeyance, his estimation is suspended, and he stands, as it were, a doubtful person in the eyes of all human society.
Burke illustrates the plight of an accused individual, whose honor is temporarily obscured.
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The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.
Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.
The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.
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