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We closed at that awful moment when we found the first women of Oude pillaged of all their landed and of all their moneyed property, in short, of all they possessed.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke describes the moment when the women of Oude were stripped of their possessions, highlighting the severity of the injustices they faced.
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