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On a late divifion of the Privy Council, they feized an early opportunity to fpeak, as a Body, (nay, ufed thefe words) and even by anticipation — to call the caufe before their own tribunal — tbe other tribunals were of courfe to fmk in the pub - lic efiimation.
A letter on the nature and tendency of the Whig Club and of Irish party 1791
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And in vame he feareth that abfurditie, lcaft vnlefle the vnchangcable coun - fell of God had been before the creation of man that Chrift fhouldc be borne, not as the rcdemer but a$ the firft man, he {houlde haue loft his prerogatiue: for afmuch as nowe he fhoulde be borne man onely by an accident caufe, that is to reftorc man kindc being loft, and
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May not the decay of Batavia, whofe chief fupport is the free trade of its inhabitants, be in lome meafure likewife afcribed to this caufe?
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And they by their folly do caufe it to be loft and abandoned.
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This appearance of the fea, in fome degree, is very common; but the caufe is not fo generally known.
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This cafe arifes on a fpecial applica - cation to the Court, to deliver on bail, a Qiip which has been arrelled in a caufe of pofleHion.
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Admiralty: Commencing with the ... 1812
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Nay, it is kept up to injure the caufe of the Company, after they have atlually agreed on enlargements of the trade to England, greater than ever were contemplated, even by the pri - vate merchants of India, before the prefent negotiation; and, if enlargements could effeft the objeft, more than fufficient to bring the whole Indian trade of the Americans to the port of London.
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It is but a defamatioii of the truthe: And under fuche a Princes name as our Soverant Lord is, whofe tongue, in this fo pure innocency, hath not bene defiled with any untruthe; I afliire you, I thought there was not fo great haft in Homelies, but they might have tarried the printing either, for that only caufe.
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Whereof the onlye caufe is, that I know nothing can pafs by the Parlament more to the ftabliOiment of her Hieghnes State, both afore God and man, then the fure ftablifhinge of thefe too.
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There is not fuffident caufe fliewn, in the original cafe, for the introdu&ion of fuch affidavits as are offered by the captors.
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Admiralty: Commencing with the ... 1812
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