The Works of the Rev. John Fletcher, Late Vicar of Madeley, Volume 8John Mason, 1859 |
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... come too late . Besides , the mistakes which have armed the provincials against Great Britain , begin to work in the breasts of many good men among us : witness the princi- ples of Americanus . Now , therefore , is the time to keep ...
... come too late . Besides , the mistakes which have armed the provincials against Great Britain , begin to work in the breasts of many good men among us : witness the princi- ples of Americanus . Now , therefore , is the time to keep ...
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... Come we now to taxes . If the sovereign rules and protects his subjects ; and if it is his office to avert the dangers which threaten them , and to see that justice be done to the oppressed ; he has his noble , I had almost said , his ...
... Come we now to taxes . If the sovereign rules and protects his subjects ; and if it is his office to avert the dangers which threaten them , and to see that justice be done to the oppressed ; he has his noble , I had almost said , his ...
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... comes to the same , in making and repealing laws . Sir , I would no more encourage a tyrannical monarch and an oppressive parlia- ment than you . But supposing our mild king were a tyrant , and his parliament consisted of three hundred ...
... comes to the same , in making and repealing laws . Sir , I would no more encourage a tyrannical monarch and an oppressive parlia- ment than you . But supposing our mild king were a tyrant , and his parliament consisted of three hundred ...
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... comes on : a young gentleman wants a few months of the age which the law requires in a voter , and , of consequence , he cannot yet choose his own representative ; must he continue a slave till the next election ? A knight , disapproved ...
... comes on : a young gentleman wants a few months of the age which the law requires in a voter , and , of consequence , he cannot yet choose his own representative ; must he continue a slave till the next election ? A knight , disapproved ...
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... come back to the very point whence he started , and are reduced to the mortifying necessity of maintaining , that our English patriots , so called , are some of the most abject slaves in the universe ; or that our American colonies are ...
... come back to the very point whence he started , and are reduced to the mortifying necessity of maintaining , that our English patriots , so called , are some of the most abject slaves in the universe ; or that our American colonies are ...
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