vexers

Lincoln rebuked one of these covetous vexers by saying gravely to him:

The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

Lincoln rebuked one of these covetous vexers by saying gravely to him:

The Lincoln Story Book Williams, Henry L 1907

If it were not for those inestimable fragments and wrecks of the recorded government which have been saved from the destruction which Mr. Hastings intended for them all, the most shameful enormities that have ever disgraced a government or harassed a people would only be known in this country by secret whispers and unauthenticated anecdotes; the disgracer's of government, the vexers and afflicters of mankind, instead of being brought before an awful public tribunal, might have been honored with the highest distinctions and rewards their country has to bestow; and sordid bribery, base peculation, iron-handed extortion, fierce, unrelenting tyranny, might themselves have been invested with those sacred robes of justice before which this day they have cause to tremble.

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763