The ocean is an object of no small terror. ✨ Edmund Burke, T. O. McLou…

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The ocean is an object of no small terror. ✨ Edmund Burke, T. O. McLoughlin, Paul Langford, James T. Boulton (1997). The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings, p.230, Oxford University Press on Demand
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