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... laws , which have been progressively made by our ancestors , as often as they found it necessary to insist on this essential privilege . PARLIAMENTS were generally annual , but never conti- nued longer than three years , till the ...
... laws , which have been progressively made by our ancestors , as often as they found it necessary to insist on this essential privilege . PARLIAMENTS were generally annual , but never conti- nued longer than three years , till the ...
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... law were any longer to subsist , which might record it to posterity . Let us THIS is a season of virtue and public spirit . take advantage of it to repeal those laws which infringe our liberties , and introduce such as may restore the ...
... law were any longer to subsist , which might record it to posterity . Let us THIS is a season of virtue and public spirit . take advantage of it to repeal those laws which infringe our liberties , and introduce such as may restore the ...
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... law , While I was busy for the commonwealth , Your Lighness pleased to forget my place , The majesty and pow'r of law ... laws so loosely slighted ; Behold yourself so by a son disdain'd : And then imagine me taking your part , And in ...
... law , While I was busy for the commonwealth , Your Lighness pleased to forget my place , The majesty and pow'r of law ... laws so loosely slighted ; Behold yourself so by a son disdain'd : And then imagine me taking your part , And in ...
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Virtue our higheſt Intereſt | 2 |
Elegy written in a Coun | 10 |
NARRATIVE PIECES | 14 |
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