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What I now offer to your lordfhip is the wretched remainder of a fickly age, worn out with ftu - dy, and opprened by fortune: without other fupport than the conftancy and patience of a Chriftian.
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Your lordfhip fe aware that the power of the government of the United States to prohibit the employment of Britifh feamen tnuft be exercifed in the ienfe and fpirit of the conftitution, but there is no reafon to doubt but that it will be fo exercifed e | fe£tu« ally and with good faith.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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Your lordfhip will not be furprifed that I have prefented the revocation of the orders in council as a preliminary to the fuf -
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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In 'propofing to your lordfhip thefe terms for a fufpenfion of hoftilities, 1 am inftru&ed to eome to a clear and diftinft under -
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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Conceive, if you can, my difappoiiitmenti Hav - ing fully expefted to behold his lordfhip every minute, I was doubly difappointed, and doubly chagrined.
Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments,: Tending to Amuse ... 1797
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But, my lord, before wq go any farther, I crave leave humbly to reprefcnt to your lordfhip, that I thought you undertook to make out that my notion of ideas was inconfiflcnt with the articles of the Chriftian i'aith.
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But your lordfhip knows, that I do not take thefe two founds, man and body, to dand for the fame thing., nor the identity of the man to be the fame with tjie identity of the body.
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Has not his lordfhip juft faid, that the ftream of vulgar prejudice is in favour of the only true re-* lijfioft?
The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan 1796
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And now I deiire your lordfhip to confidcr of what ufe it is to yoa in the preicnt cafe, to quote out of my Kflay theie words, ■ Tliac par -
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Their want of proviflons his lordfhip ftated to be excelfive, and repeated what had been fo often urged in the houie as the impediment to peace, — want of fecurity.
The New Annual Register, Or, General Repository of History, Politics, and ... 1796
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