It is not instantly that I can be brought to rejoice, when I hear of the slaughter and captivity of long lists of those names which have been familiar to my ears from my infancy, and to rejoice that they have fallen under the sword of strangers, whose barbarous appellations I scarcely know how to pronounce.
Burke expresses his inability to rejoice over the loss of familiar names in battle, highlighting his emotional connection to them.
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