Must I be annihilated, lest, like old John Zisca's, my skin might be made into a drum, to animate Europe to eternal battle against a tyranny that threatens to overwhelm all Europe and all the human race?
Burke uses a metaphor about being turned into a drum to illustrate the urgency of resisting tyranny.
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