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... hath fallen out , sometimes , that both Papists and Protestants , Jews and Turks , may be embarked into one ship . Upon which supposal , I affirm that all the liberty of conscience , that ever I pleaded for , turns upon these two hinges ...
... hath fallen out , sometimes , that both Papists and Protestants , Jews and Turks , may be embarked into one ship . Upon which supposal , I affirm that all the liberty of conscience , that ever I pleaded for , turns upon these two hinges ...
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... hath laid one of the finest countries in British America under the unjust scandal of being a mere hell upon earth , - ยท another Siberia , and only fit for the recep- tion of malefactors and the vilest of the people . So that few people ...
... hath laid one of the finest countries in British America under the unjust scandal of being a mere hell upon earth , - ยท another Siberia , and only fit for the recep- tion of malefactors and the vilest of the people . So that few people ...
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... hath liberty to do what he lists : it is a liberty to evil as well as to good . This liberty is incompatible and inconsistent with authority , and cannot endure the least restraint of the most just authority . The exercise and ...
... hath liberty to do what he lists : it is a liberty to evil as well as to good . This liberty is incompatible and inconsistent with authority , and cannot endure the least restraint of the most just authority . The exercise and ...
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... hath come ; that Divine Virtue , in all the sympathies of human trial and duty , has passed triumphantly the ordeal he proposed of contempt and slander , the scourge and the cross ; that the Master whom Socrates promised to the young ...
... hath come ; that Divine Virtue , in all the sympathies of human trial and duty , has passed triumphantly the ordeal he proposed of contempt and slander , the scourge and the cross ; that the Master whom Socrates promised to the young ...
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... hath placed in our power . Three millions of peo- ple , armed in the holy cause of liberty , and in such a country as that which we possess , are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us . Besides , sir , we shall not ...
... hath placed in our power . Three millions of peo- ple , armed in the holy cause of liberty , and in such a country as that which we possess , are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us . Besides , sir , we shall not ...
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Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Benj. N. Martin Staff,Benjamin N Martin No preview available - 2004 |
Choice Specimens of American Literature Benj N Martin,Benj. N. Martin Staff No preview available - 2004 |
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