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" ... and tyranny has not only been defended, but even carefled and rewarded, in proportion as it has been uncommonly daring and enormous. The tyrant had only to call the ftruggles of the opprefled by the name of fattion ', and, under the madow of this... "
The History of Jamaica. Or, General Survey of the Antient and Modern State ... - Page 4
by Edward Long - 1774
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 51

Books - 1774 - 592 pages
...by the name offaflion ; and under the lhadow of this word, he couldconceal their wounds, and his owa guilt. ' A faithful defcription of our provincial...little better than a portrait of artifice, duplicity, haugbtinefs, violence, rapine, avarice, meanneft, rancour and diC-. honefty ranged in fucceffion ;...
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the monthly journal

several hands - 1774 - 596 pages
...o(fażlion; and under the iliadow of this word, he could conceal t bar wounds, and his ovau guilt. 1 A faithful defcription of our provincial governors,...would be little better than a portrait of artifice, dupluiiv, haughtinefs, violence, rapine, avarice, meannefs, rancour and difhonefty ranged in fuccefiion...
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The British Colonies: Their History, Extent, Condition and Resources, Volume 8

Robert Montgomery Martin - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1850 - 230 pages
...the * Edwards, vol. i., p. 231. t Bridges' Jamaica, vol. i., pp. 322-'3. j " A faithful description of our provincial governors, and men in power, would...little better than a portrait of artifice, duplicity, haughtiness, violence, rapine, avarice, meanness, rancour, and dishonesty, ranged in succession ; suburbs,...
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The Island Race: Englishness, Empire and Gender in the Eighteenth Century

Kathleen Wilson - England - 2003 - 312 pages
...ameliorate. Edward Long summed up established local feeling when he remarked that "a faithful description of our Provincial governors and men in power, would...little better than a portrait of artifice, duplicity, haughtiness, violence, rapine, avarice, meanness, rancor and dishonesty, ranged in succession." From...
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