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He burned the Druids in their own fires; and that no retreat might be afforded to that order, their consecrated woods were everywhere destroyed.
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Edmund Burke
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gutenberg.orgEdmund Burke: “He burned the Druids in their own fires; and that no retreat might be afforded to that order, their consecrated woods…”
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Burke describes the extreme measures taken against the Druids, illustrating the severity of the conflict.
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