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Page 26
... pow'r to which they could not rise . Some had in courts been great , and thrown from thence , Like fiends were harden'd in impenitence . Some , by their monarch's fatal mercy , grown From pardon'd rebels kinsmen to the throne , Were ...
... pow'r to which they could not rise . Some had in courts been great , and thrown from thence , Like fiends were harden'd in impenitence . Some , by their monarch's fatal mercy , grown From pardon'd rebels kinsmen to the throne , Were ...
Page 48
... pow'r control— Such votes as make a part exceed the whole : No groundless clamors shall my friends remove , Nor crowds have pow'r to punish ere they prove ; For gods and godlike kings their care express , Still to defend their servants ...
... pow'r control— Such votes as make a part exceed the whole : No groundless clamors shall my friends remove , Nor crowds have pow'r to punish ere they prove ; For gods and godlike kings their care express , Still to defend their servants ...
Page 55
... pow'r would murther too . What means their trait'rous combination less , Too plain t ' evade , too shameful to confess ! But treason is not own'd when ' t is descried : Successful crimes alone are justified . The men , who no conspiracy ...
... pow'r would murther too . What means their trait'rous combination less , Too plain t ' evade , too shameful to confess ! But treason is not own'd when ' t is descried : Successful crimes alone are justified . The men , who no conspiracy ...
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