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conduct is necessarily dependant.
Considered in itself thus arbitrary
and unconstitutional and pregnant with
abuse and incapable of being properly
exercised is the power which constitutes
one of the antagonising forces of the Reverend
Doctors exquisite system of policy.
But for all this mischief the Doctor has
a remedy, a remedy of his own Stile — a
Statement in the true Sermon Stile of the
manner in which the power ought to
be exercised, which according to the
system of synonymation received in the
every-thing-is-as-it-should-be School
is exactly the same as to say is and ever
will be.
"But" (continues he) "let this power be
"deposited where it will, the exercise of it
"ought to be regarded not as a favour
"to be yielded to Solicitation, granted
"to friendship, or least of all to be
"made subservient to the conciliating or
"gratifying of political attachments" (or
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