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The provinces groaned at once under all the severity of public imposition and the rapaciousness of private usury.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “The provinces groaned at once under all the severity of public imposition and the rapaciousness of private usury.”
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Burke describes the dual burden of public and private financial pressures faced by the provinces in the Roman Empire.
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