Do you understand that the English nation had made themselves so odious, so particularly hateful, even to women the most secluded from the world, that there was no crime, no mischief, no family destruction, through which they would not wade, for our extermination?
Burke argues that the English have become so despised that people would go to great lengths to see them harmed.
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