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  1. Weeds and nettles, briars and thorns, have thriven under your shadow, dissettlement and division, discontentment and dissatisfaction, toget…
  2. Truly, though kingship be not a title but a name of office that runs through the law, yet it is not so ratione nominis, but from what is si…
  3. I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people …
  4. Men have been led in dark paths, through the providence and dispensation of God. Why, surely it is not to be objected to a man, for who can…
  5. I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height, nor yet in obscurity. I have been called to several employments in t…
  6. You have accounted yourselves happy on being environed with a great ditch from all the world beside.
  7. Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imagined necessities... are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, …
  8. That which brought me into the capacity I now stand in, was the Petition and Advice given me by you, who, in reference to the ancient Const…

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