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Indirect
Raising Evidence
who have had the magnanimity to give liberty
[to the Catholic religion] catholicism may be
expected to have the wisdom to turn it to this make this use of it
account.
The civil power by itself [has been known
here and there to ] commonly enough tries to
procure informations by means of threats.
Misprision of what is called deemed Treason that is the not
telling what one
knows of Treason
is made punishable I suppose
under every government: and is in many
inferior crimes. It
It is evident however without many words that
this cannot be otherwise than a very precarious
resource. You threaten because for want of
information: and for that very reason you can
not execute your threats: it nothing but some
accidental treachery or some other incident equally
precarious incident can put the means of doing
so into your way
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