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... that it is likely to cause great perjury in the nation ; a crime , than which nothing is more carefully to be prevented by law - makers , not only by penalties , that shall attend apparent and proved perjury , but by avoiding and ...
... that it is likely to cause great perjury in the nation ; a crime , than which nothing is more carefully to be prevented by law - makers , not only by penalties , that shall attend apparent and proved perjury , but by avoiding and ...
Page 42
For , if rye should any year prove generally smutty , or grown , no question it would yield less money than otherwise , because the deficiency of that might be , in some measure , made up by wheat , and other grain .
For , if rye should any year prove generally smutty , or grown , no question it would yield less money than otherwise , because the deficiency of that might be , in some measure , made up by wheat , and other grain .
Page 74
The owner of land , which produces the commodity , and the last buyer who consumes it , are the two extremes in commerce ; and though the falling of any sort of commodity in the landholder's hand does not prove so to the last consumer ...
The owner of land , which produces the commodity , and the last buyer who consumes it , are the two extremes in commerce ; and though the falling of any sort of commodity in the landholder's hand does not prove so to the last consumer ...
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Which way soever it succeeds , it proves either prejudicial or ineffectual . If the design of your law takes place , the kingdom loses by it : if the inconvenience be felt and avoided , your law is eluded .
Which way soever it succeeds , it proves either prejudicial or ineffectual . If the design of your law takes place , the kingdom loses by it : if the inconvenience be felt and avoided , your law is eluded .
Page 104
Where none of these be , there their plain , true , honest sense , would prove very easy and intelligible , if expressed in ordinary and direct language . That this is so , I shall show , by examining a printed sheet on this subject ...
Where none of these be , there their plain , true , honest sense , would prove very easy and intelligible , if expressed in ordinary and direct language . That this is so , I shall show , by examining a printed sheet on this subject ...
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| Title | The Works of John Locke, Volume 5 The Works of John Locke, John Locke |
| Author | John Locke |
| Publisher | Thomas Tegg, 1823 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 7 Apr 2006 |
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