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Edmund Burke: “We have said that he has desolated countries by the same means that plagues of his description have produced similar…”

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We have said that he has desolated countries by the same means that plagues of his description have produced similar desolations.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke draws a parallel between the devastation caused by a person and the destruction wrought by natural disasters.

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