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It was at this crisis of aggravated insult and brutality that the indignation which these proceedings had occasioned in the breasts of the Rajah's subjects burst out into an open flame.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke describes the intense reaction of the Rajah's subjects to the injustices they witnessed.
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