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Biany other ftates, in a juA and well gronnded opinion of his own fafety, which is thp jptfkQxqn of political iiherty.
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The city is handfome, and airy; the flreets moflly ftraight: the governor has caufed them to be paved with granite from China, and to be lighted with lamps, fo that paflengers may walk them in fafety by night as well as by day.
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During our abfence, Captsdn Gierke had been under the greatefl: anxiety for our fafety.
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I cannot help remarking upon this part of Captain Tafman's journal, that it is notr eafy to conceive, unlefs he was bound up by his inftrudtons, why he did not remain fome time either at Rotterdam or at Amfterdam ifland, but efpecially at the former '; fince, perhaps, there is not a place in the world fo happily feated, for making new dif - coveries with eafe and fafety.
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On the other hand, fome new regulations iiave been introduced which have been fuggefted by recent occur - rences, and which appear to be ufeful and neceifary for the fafety and protection of the property and interefts of the members of the Stock-Exchange.
Rules and regulations adopted by the committee for general purposes of the Stock-Exchange; 1812
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Some of them told us, that the power of the King is unlimited, and that the life and property of the fubjed are at his difpofal; and we faw inftances enough to prove that the lower order of people have no property, nor fafety for their perfons, but at the will of the chiefe to whom they refpeftively belong.
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All the precautions I had taken for her comfort or her fafety, have only ope - rated to her deftruftion. —
Emily de Varmont; or, Divorce dictated by necessity; to which are added, The amours of father ... 1798
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Windfor, with orders to feize the delinquents, and bring them off, if they judged they could do it with fafety.
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** Look about, you my friends, and fix your eyes on the perfons, whom you wifh to deliver up as the vi£lims of your own fafety.
Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments,: Tending to Amuse ... 1797
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Then upon confultation, they concluded, that they could not, with fafety, remain any longer in the coun - try.
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