"The whole compass of the language is tried……" — Edmund Burke

The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms]… - Edmund Burke
"The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names. Massacre is sometimes called agitation, sometimes effervescence, sometimes excess sometimes too continued an exercise of revolutionary power."

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