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  • As I have always considered the independancy of this Continent, as an event which sooner or later must arrive, so from the late rapid progress of the Continent to maturity, the event cannot be far off.

    Common Sense 2002

  • Butduring his preceptorship, and independancy of of any participation in the councils, his authority had nevertheless become of considerable importance at Court, with Louis XIV personally.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

  • Whoever says No to this question is an independant, for independancy means no more, than, whether we shall make our own laws, or, whether the --, the greatest enemy this continent hath, or can have, shall tell us ` there shall be no laws but such as I like. '

    Common Sense 1776

  • As I have always considered the independancy of this continent, as an event, which sooner or later must arrive, so from the late rapid progress of the continent to maturity, the event could not be far off.

    Common Sense 1776

  • Should an independancy be brought about by the first of those means, we have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest purest constitution on the face of the earth.

    Appendix 1776

  • Whoever says No to this question is an independant, for independancy means no more, than, whether we shall make our own laws, or, whether the king, the greatest enemy this continent hath, or can have, shall tell us, "there shall be no laws but such as I like."

    Section III 1776

  • Should an independancy be brought about by the first of those means, we have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest, purest constitution on the face of the earth.

    Common Sense 1776

  • As I have always considered the independancy of this continent, as an event, which sooner or later must arrive, so from the late rapid progress of the continent to maturity, the event could not be far off.

    Section III 1776

  • As I have always considered the independancy of this continent, as an event, which sooner or later must arrive, so from the late rapid progress of the continent to maturity, the event could not be far off.

    Common Sense Thomas Paine 1773

  • Should an independancy be brought about by the first of those means, we have every opportunity and every encouragement before us, to form the noblest purest constitution on the face of the earth.

    Common Sense Thomas Paine 1773

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