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<p>[QUOTE="Ex Libris, post: 2130764, member: 14916"]In the book, that contains the lithograph of this picture, the following text is added:</p><p><br /></p><p>"De Cholera is hier redster; zij doet de vijandelijke legers afdeinzen van de bedreigde grenzen. Een invasie toch is vreesselijker dan een voorbijgaande epidemie; deze doodt eenige individuën; gene treft geheel het Volk in ’t hart"</p><p><br /></p><p>That would roughly translate in something like:</p><p><br /></p><p>"The Cholera is the savior here. She scared the enemy's armies from the threatened borders. An invasion is worse then a transient epidemic; this will kill only individuals, the other will hit the entire people in their heart."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ex Libris, post: 2130764, member: 14916"]In the book, that contains the lithograph of this picture, the following text is added: "De Cholera is hier redster; zij doet de vijandelijke legers afdeinzen van de bedreigde grenzen. Een invasie toch is vreesselijker dan een voorbijgaande epidemie; deze doodt eenige individuën; gene treft geheel het Volk in ’t hart" That would roughly translate in something like: "The Cholera is the savior here. She scared the enemy's armies from the threatened borders. An invasion is worse then a transient epidemic; this will kill only individuals, the other will hit the entire people in their heart."[/QUOTE]
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