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•f fafety or protection from without* than in fmali ones; yet, as there are more whofe interefts nuft be confulted, there muft be more of reftraint on the liberty of individu - als; and that the more there is of union in the views or interefts of individuals thus united, the reftraint will be the lefs.

Essays and Dissertations on Various Subjects: Relating to Human Life and Happiness 1770

I did, faid Mr.R. * as one of the Committee, put many queitions to the gentlemen attending, but under the difad vantage at the commencement of a total unacquaintance with the futge&i at all times under the reftraint arifing from interrogating gentle - men of high refpe&ability on points in which their interefts op - pokd a dire£\ anfwer, and who appeared for others, the circurn - fiances of whofe cafe was more exceptionable.

Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812

As thefe combats formed the fupreme pleafure of the people of Home at one period, the moft cruel of their emperors were fometimes the moft popular, merely becaufe they indulged the people without reftraint in their favourite amufcment,

Historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries, from the time of ... 1797

The infliftion of cruel and un - to deprive the oppreflcd of confo - ufual punifliment is prohibited by Intion, and to deliver the oppreflbr the tenth claufe of the Bill of from reftraint.

The New annual register, or General repository of history, politics, and ... 1797

In a government of check, the felfifti paflions undergoing reftraint and diredtion, are made to produce good to focicty.

Sketch of democracy 1796

The furefl means of prcferying thee from the faf - cinating power of the. imagination, is to lay a reftraint on its adivity, that thou mayft refign thyfelf entirely to the feelings of thy heart.

Private history of Peregrinus Proteus, the philosopher 1796

They were intended as regulatiohstlf le, and not as fources of national fupplics* Till the year 1 764, all d on commercial regulation and reftraint.

An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the American United States Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829. [from old catalog] 1795

But they could foon ceafe to be beheved, and their execution would no longer be expected, if in feveral inftances they ihould be difpenfed with, and aiucceffion of fmners ihould pafs with impu - nity* Other fmners, judging of future events by paft fads, would exped the fame indulgence, and therefore venture upon difobence without any reftraint from the penalty of the law.

Sermons on important subjects, by the late Reverend and pious Samuel Davies, A.M., sometime President of the College in New-Jersey ... to which are now added, three occasional sermons ... memoirs and character of the author, and two sermons on occasion of his death, by the Rev. Drs. Gibbons and Finley 1794

It is becaufe he loves his creatures fo much that he requires them to be fo holy; and that very thing, againft which there are fo many cavils and objections, as too fe - vere and oppreflive, and a rigid reftraint from the purfuit of pleafure, is the higheft inftance of the love of God for them, and his regard for their happinefs.

Sermons on important subjects, by the late Reverend and pious Samuel Davies, A.M., sometime President of the College in New-Jersey ... to which are now added, three occasional sermons ... memoirs and character of the author, and two sermons on occasion of his death, by the Rev. Drs. Gibbons and Finley 1794

They likewife gave me to underftand, that as long as the prien hood mould be debarred from marriage, and confeflbrs continue liable to abufe the con - fidence repofed in them, the fecrecy, the prudence, and, when needful, the feverity of the inquifition, would be the only effectual reftraint againft licentioufnefs and the uni - verfal depravation of their morals.

A journey through Spain in the years 1786 and 1787 1792