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... England , pledged to the catholics of Ireland by the ratification of the treaty of Limerick , which was figned Oct. 3 , 1691 , and by virtue of which they were entitled to all the privileges that they enjoyed in the days of Charles II ...
... England , pledged to the catholics of Ireland by the ratification of the treaty of Limerick , which was figned Oct. 3 , 1691 , and by virtue of which they were entitled to all the privileges that they enjoyed in the days of Charles II ...
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... legislation : but , when her legislature was admitted by England to be fupreme , this miferable fpecies of defence could no longer be urged with any degree 1 No degree of decency . Indeed it could not have Lord Mountmorres's Crifis . 13.
... legislation : but , when her legislature was admitted by England to be fupreme , this miferable fpecies of defence could no longer be urged with any degree 1 No degree of decency . Indeed it could not have Lord Mountmorres's Crifis . 13.
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... England knows no fuch thing as an impe- rial religion ; fhe is a friend to eftablishments , it is true : but in forming them fhe is not governed by preference to any par- ticular form of worship , but by local circumftances ; giving to ...
... England knows no fuch thing as an impe- rial religion ; fhe is a friend to eftablishments , it is true : but in forming them fhe is not governed by preference to any par- ticular form of worship , but by local circumftances ; giving to ...
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... England to obferve a neutra lity on precifely thofe very grounds on which the other allies ought to have done the fame ; and , if they ought to have stood neuter , they ought to be blamed for drawing the fword . The noble Lord fhould ...
... England to obferve a neutra lity on precifely thofe very grounds on which the other allies ought to have done the fame ; and , if they ought to have stood neuter , they ought to be blamed for drawing the fword . The noble Lord fhould ...
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... England ought to observe a neutrality ; after having ftated the injuftice as well as the folly of attempting to dragoon twenty - fix millions of people ; after having argued to fhew that one nation had no right to interfere in the ...
... England ought to observe a neutrality ; after having ftated the injuftice as well as the folly of attempting to dragoon twenty - fix millions of people ; after having argued to fhew that one nation had no right to interfere in the ...
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