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  • But query whether, in pursuance thereof, in our late civil destruction, they were not violented to outrun the mark, (so impossible it is to stop a soul in the full speed thereof,) and whether they did not in some things overdo and exceed what they intended.

    Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863

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