When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.


Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke (ed. 1826)


When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of...

When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of...

When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of...

When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of...