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... tyrant ? Or , worse still , that while myriads of his nobler countrymen were smitten and pining in secret sadness , at beholding the abomination of desolation in the Holy Place of Freedom ; or were , perchance , carried forcibly away ...
... tyrant ? Or , worse still , that while myriads of his nobler countrymen were smitten and pining in secret sadness , at beholding the abomination of desolation in the Holy Place of Freedom ; or were , perchance , carried forcibly away ...
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... tyrant , and justly arms his former subjects against him . In this , however , he advances no new doctrine ; nothing , as it should seem , in the least at variance with the practice and opinions of all nations . The difficulty always is ...
... tyrant , and justly arms his former subjects against him . In this , however , he advances no new doctrine ; nothing , as it should seem , in the least at variance with the practice and opinions of all nations . The difficulty always is ...
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... tyrant , a bad husband , a bad father , one who , with the means of doing better in his possession , gave his children a wretched penurious education ; that , on returning from his travels , he most unpatriotically engaged in the ...
... tyrant , a bad husband , a bad father , one who , with the means of doing better in his possession , gave his children a wretched penurious education ; that , on returning from his travels , he most unpatriotically engaged in the ...
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... tyrant is but like a king upon a stage , a man in a vizor , and acting the part of a king in a play ; he is not ... tyrants , so pernicious to the liberty of all nations ; the author of which every free state ought to forbid their ...
... tyrant is but like a king upon a stage , a man in a vizor , and acting the part of a king in a play ; he is not ... tyrants , so pernicious to the liberty of all nations ; the author of which every free state ought to forbid their ...
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... tyrant . If a father murder his son , he himself must die for it ; and why should not a king be subject to the same law , which certainly is a most just one ? especially considering that a father cannot by any possibility divest himself ...
... tyrant . If a father murder his son , he himself must die for it ; and why should not a king be subject to the same law , which certainly is a most just one ? especially considering that a father cannot by any possibility divest himself ...
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