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SUICIDE Qui rationae Ut regnum alicana ca sue ipse facit.
How is it proved that for it to be lawful for a State to take
away life [ for ] ? Because it saves unhappiness
& nay a man then an to his own life when it
becomes a to him? Yes, for the same reason, because
it saves unhappiness
When the Printers were last Winter ordered to attend the House of Commons for printing
the speeches of the Members, it appeared on the examination of one of the Messengers that Mr. W.
Woodfall was then in custody of the Black Rod of the H. of Lords. This occasioned Mr.
Joseph Mawby to declare that he considered the proceedings of the H. of Lords in the
case of Printers to be most arbitary and tyrannical: he instanced two cases in
support of his opinion of one of the Printers (having inserted the following paragraph in a
daily Paper. "We hear the Scullian is a of France will send over a Company of his
Guns &Armis to protect his good friend and ally that D of ....... The other
are extract of from an Letter from Paris, which runs thus: "Though the Earl of Hartford is Minister
at this Court, the affairs of Gr. Britain are managed by Mr. David Hume, a
? Mr. Grant reads as well as he is able and the Liturgy of the Church of England every Sunday
in the Ambassador's Chapel. For these publications he said, the Printers were ordered to pay
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Is the obtaining of valuables with consent
given an implied condition of making return or compensation by one
not intending at the time to make either return or compensation
In this Crime
Man's Vanity is in some a to these alarms.
Oaths promissary
The names appellation of oaths might be confined
to oaths apertory.
for Oaths promissory might be deigned apropriated
by the name of Vows .m
Perjury is the wilfull & knowing utterance
of a false oath materially
a point material to which one is called
to testify by designation of Law.
Cr. J. 687 Thou art as arrant a
as any is in England: for
though has broken up
Chest, away 40£
Judgment arrested, because
not It is not said whether by Dif n in the words by the Def in declaring. that there was any
in England. & the last words
impart not Felony.
Identifier: | JB/073/006/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 73.
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