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article has been made the subject of distinction: It is | article has been made the subject of distinction: It is | ||
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odds however if this be all he hears: | odds however if this be all he hears: if his forecast be not | ||
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treated as chimerical if it be not censured as a <gap/> | |||
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of penal Laws , as a Speculatist , a Schemer , an Utopian . | |||
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By & by (who could have thought <add>it</add>) His Neighbours Potatoes | |||
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share<del>s</del> the same misfortune: This opens his Comprehension : | |||
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another Statute for Potatoes : in the Preamble of — | |||
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which care is taken to assure Posterity <add>hast Posterity should</add> <del>may not</del> imagine | |||
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it was made without a reason, <del>to inform them</del> that this was | |||
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not done upon . . . . speculation , for that <del><unclear>&c</unclear></del>" divers and | |||
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sundry wicked & evil minded persons "had actually done | |||
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this unimaginable deed. | |||
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under construction by Diane Folan ... please do not amend!
So little is Preventive Legislation in vogue , that it is
a common and popular objection to a Law calculated to
oppose a mischief, that no such mischief has yet been
felt: how plainly soever the probability of it might always
have been read in human Nature.
No thoughts of resisting the enemy, till he be already in our quarters.
Is a Turnip stolen or destroyed? measures are taken to
that it may be done no more — Should + a man propose to
extend the same the preservation to carrots or Potatoes that
there is no evidence has been given to shew that the latter
article has been made the subject of distinction: It is
odds however if this be all he hears: if his forecast be not
treated as chimerical if it be not censured as a
of penal Laws , as a Speculatist , a Schemer , an Utopian .
By & by (who could have thought it) His Neighbours Potatoes
shares the same misfortune: This opens his Comprehension :
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another Statute for Potatoes : in the Preamble of —
which care is taken to assure Posterity hast Posterity should may not imagine
it was made without a reason, to inform them that this was
not done upon . . . . speculation , for that &c" divers and
sundry wicked & evil minded persons "had actually done
this unimaginable deed.
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