Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, Volume 65, Part 2

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F. Jefferies, 1795
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Page 881 - You affect, sir, to despise all rank, not derived from the same source with your own. I cannot conceive one more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power. Far from making it a plea for cruelty, a mind of true magnanimity and enlarged ideas, would comprehend and respect it.
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