Whilst the authors of all these evils were idly and stupidly gazing on this menacing meteor, which blackened all their horizon, it suddenly burst, and poured down the whole of its contents upon the plains of the Carnatic.
Burke uses vivid imagery to describe the catastrophic consequences of war on the region of the Carnatic.
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