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... shillings a year . " One quotation more . Judge Blackstone says , " In a Free State , every man , who is supposed to be a Free Agent , ought in some measure to be his own governor : Therefore one branch at least of the legislative power ...
... shillings a year . " One quotation more . Judge Blackstone says , " In a Free State , every man , who is supposed to be a Free Agent , ought in some measure to be his own governor : Therefore one branch at least of the legislative power ...
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... shillings a year ; for want of two shillin : more in his yearly income he is no freeholder : And li the Colonists , he is taxed without his consent ; is " an abject slave " on this account ? Wild patriotisı answers in the affirmative ...
... shillings a year ; for want of two shillin : more in his yearly income he is no freeholder : And li the Colonists , he is taxed without his consent ; is " an abject slave " on this account ? Wild patriotisı answers in the affirmative ...
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... shillings , or the losing of two days ' work in mending the highways , is more to a poor man who has a large family , than the losing of 20007. is to a man of fortune . Taxes are never felt by the rich ; because they pay them out of ...
... shillings , or the losing of two days ' work in mending the highways , is more to a poor man who has a large family , than the losing of 20007. is to a man of fortune . Taxes are never felt by the rich ; because they pay them out of ...
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... shillings a year in land , has one vote ; so he who has twice forty shillings , should have two votes ; and he who has ten thousand pounds a year , should have five thousand votes : By which means , he might return himself member for ...
... shillings a year in land , has one vote ; so he who has twice forty shillings , should have two votes ; and he who has ten thousand pounds a year , should have five thousand votes : By which means , he might return himself member for ...
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... shillings , or the losing of two days ' work in mending the highways , is more to a poor man who has a large family , than the losing of 20007. is to a man of fortune . Taxes are never felt by the rich ; because they pay them out of ...
... shillings , or the losing of two days ' work in mending the highways , is more to a poor man who has a large family , than the losing of 20007. is to a man of fortune . Taxes are never felt by the rich ; because they pay them out of ...
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Page 181 - And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land ; for I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.
Page 323 - Ye call me Master and Lord : and ye say well ; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet ; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Page 380 - And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
Page 193 - Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace: For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.
Page 187 - Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire ? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
Page 377 - So am I. Are they ministers of Christ ? (I speak as a fool) I am more : in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
Page 359 - But thou, O man of God, flee these things, and follow after righteousness, Godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
Page 333 - Ye men of Israel, why marvel ye at this ? or why look ye so earnestly on us, as though by our own power or holiness we had made this man to walk...
Page 315 - Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous: 'not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.
Page 179 - For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.