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Each blamed himfelf either with aftlve difloyalty to the king, or a pafiive compliance with his dcflroyers.
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But Mr. du Pin is afto - nifhed at their difloyalty, when the dodlors of the aflBimbly have taught them at the fame time the refpedt due to laws.
Reflections on the Revolution in France,: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London ... 1790
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They have tried to infcft the people of England with the contagion rf difloyalty.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets 1787
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May I be allowed, my Lords, to congratulate my countrymen and fellow-fubjeds upon the happy times which are now approaching, in which no man will be difqualified for the privilege of being drunk, ivhen all difcontent and difloyalty ihall be forgotten, and the people, though now confidered by the miniftry as their enemies, Ihall ac* knowledge the lenity of that government, under which all reftraints are taken away.
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He blamed the feverity and inflexibility of the viceroy, and declared his belief, that his majefty did not afcribe the late civil commotions to difobedience or difloyalty, but to the neceflity of circum - ftances, which obliged Pizarro and his friends to act on a principle of felf-pre - fervation.
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Can it be a fmall injury that has inflamed and irritated, almoft to an appeal to heaven, a whole people, hitherto untainted with difloyalty, untroubled with commotions, and unalterable in their affedion for their fellow-fub - je6ls of this country?
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Hiftory does not contain a fingle inftance of gene - ral difaffedion or difloyalty in the Colonies, from their firft fettlement to the ccnclufion of the late War.
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„, ornrahs, under the command of the Amir Ulluck, fubniits. to flop the progrefs of Bahadur; but in the mean time Zeman the captain general repenting of his difloyalty, fent a number of elephants and other prefents to the king, and Monim interceding for his pardon, Akbar was prevailed upon to re - ceive 'him into favor, and draw the pen of obli - vion over his crimes.
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Any attempt therefore to propagate opinions which have manifeftly this tendency, will juftify an outward reftraint upon liberty, es - pecially if they are accompanied with ouvert a&s of difloyalty or difobedience; and, tho* the other cafes mentioned do not feem to ftand in need of a reftraint of this kind from without, in matters of opinion alone, even when Its Influence on Learning, &c: 7 3 irfien reckoned erroneous, yet it becomes neceffary here likewife, if any praftices fol - low that are irreligious or immoral, accord - ing to the degree in which the laws of God or fociety are violated by them.
Essays and Dissertations on Various Subjects: Relating to Human Life and Happiness 1770
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Adam's miftalce appears* for he finds Lamech's trou-i ble proceeded from having killed a man: but yet the two names kinneah and niouph (the one (landing for fufpicion, in a hufband, of his wife's difloyalty to him, and the other for the adt of committing difloyalty) loft not their diftindt lignifications.
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