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BR9 DISSENT CONFLICTUS LEGUM. 1 Comm. 90.

One of the most redoubtable arguments in a paper
circulated among the members of the House of Lords against
the Bill for the Relief of the Dissenters, [v. Publ. Ads. for
Saturday [23o 2] of May 1772 is that it would be contrary
to several Acts of Parliament. It is then applied indeed however
only to the matter of expediency, & not of right: tho' in either
case is it's force the same

Luckily Cicero has spoken treated of this conceit, as the
Author of the Commentaries observes, with the contempt it
merits deserves: And Cicero was an eloquent Orator, a Roman, &
lived 1800 years ago.— Those arguments which will weigh with
those with whom no others will.

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A4 DISSENTERS - Penal Laws

Who are these men, thatto take they should take upon them to
impose this stigma & this thraldom on men loyal as themselves,
peaceable as themselves, and (to descend ascend from these
merits negative qualities which a state expects from it's members as
matters of obligation, to those positive ones which it
honours in them as matters of praise) learned as themselves,
in every respect their equals, except (that in
which may pardon their inferiority) in not being titled as
themselves?

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