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... because it would not have been easy to separate them from the rest , and also because they tend to interest the reader in the difcuffion ; and the names only being changed , the defcriptions will equally fuit other perfons , and other ...
... because it would not have been easy to separate them from the rest , and also because they tend to interest the reader in the difcuffion ; and the names only being changed , the defcriptions will equally fuit other perfons , and other ...
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... because the author of Alfred and Caffandra was not incapable of it , and the hand writing of the Note I received figned Theodofius , fufficiently 1 fufficiently resembles that of the letter I had from Dr. X THE PREFACE .
... because the author of Alfred and Caffandra was not incapable of it , and the hand writing of the Note I received figned Theodofius , fufficiently 1 fufficiently resembles that of the letter I had from Dr. X THE PREFACE .
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... because he is called a king ? And if in such a caufe a king make war upon his subjects , and occafion the death of thousands of them , is his fingle life of so much value , as that he ought to be spared for fuch an enormity ? But ...
... because he is called a king ? And if in such a caufe a king make war upon his subjects , and occafion the death of thousands of them , is his fingle life of so much value , as that he ought to be spared for fuch an enormity ? But ...
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... because we bear the fame name ? Do not bodies of men , and whole nations , change their principles , in a course of years , even much more than individual perfons ; and must they who are now innocent suffer for the fins of their re ...
... because we bear the fame name ? Do not bodies of men , and whole nations , change their principles , in a course of years , even much more than individual perfons ; and must they who are now innocent suffer for the fins of their re ...
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... because we find it conve- nient ( especially as a cover for a rusy coat , or a tattered pair of breeches ) have a third ground of exception from a charge that affects the rest of the Diffenters . But , my good friends , to be ferious ...
... because we find it conve- nient ( especially as a cover for a rusy coat , or a tattered pair of breeches ) have a third ground of exception from a charge that affects the rest of the Diffenters . But , my good friends , to be ferious ...
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