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Their being turned out of house and home, and having all their land given to farmers of revenue for five years to riot in and despoil them of all they had, is what fills them with rapture.
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Edmund Burke
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Editor's note · Context
Burke describes the extreme hardships faced by the people, contrasting it with their expressed joy.
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