I would add my voice with better, and, I trust, more potent charms, to draw down justice and wisdom and fortitude from heaven, for the correction of human vice, and the recalling of human error from the devious ways into which it has been betrayed.
Burke expresses a desire for divine assistance in promoting justice and correcting human errors.
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The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.
To establish a current circulating credit upon any land-bank, under any circumstances whatsoever, has hitherto proved difficult at the very least.
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