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Senate's decrees, her ambassador replied, That _li decreti di Venezia rassomigli avano poca i Gridi di Parigi_ [Footnote: The decrees of Venice little resemble the _edicts_ of Paris.], meaning the declaratory publications of the Grand Monarque, -- proclaimed to-day perhaps, repealed to-morrow -- "for Sire," added he, "our senate deliberates long before it decrees, but what is once decreed there is seldom or ever recalled."
Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I Hester Lynch Piozzi 1781
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