This is the substance, the principle, and the spirit of the covenants, and will show your Lordships how Radicated an evil this of bribery and presents was judged to be.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. X. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke
My Lords, we are not here to commend or blame the institutions and prejudices of a whole race of people, Radicated in them by a long succession of ages, on which no reason or argument, on which no vicissitudes of things, no mixtures of men, or foreign conquest, have been able to make the smallest impression.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. X. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke