“[…they] would cut us to mincemeat, and throw our bleeding heads on that table to stare us in the face.”

— Boyle Roche

In disparagement of the French revolution and its practitioners.
[Barrington, Jonah, Personal sketches and recollections of his own times, Chapter XVII https://archive.org/details/personalsketche06barrgoog]

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Irish politician 1736–1807

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