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DISSENT BR9 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
only to the matter of expediency, & not of right: tho' in questionable reading
is its questionable reading the questionable reading
Luckily Cicero has spoken treated of this conceit, as
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
with when no others will.
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DISSENTERS - Penal Laws
Who are these men, thatto take they should take upon them to
impose this stigma of this thraldom on men loyal as themselves,
peaceable as themselves, and (to descend ascend from there
negative qualities which expects from its' members as
matters of obligation, to those positive ones which it
honours in them as matters of ) learned as themselves,
in every respect their equals, except (that in
which may pardon their inferiority) in not being as
themselves?
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