Corrupt Ministers, the Cause of Publick Calamities, Or, The Interest of the King and His People, One: Being a Brief Relation of Some Publick Crimes Committed in the Government During the Late War ... |
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... Offenders , and put an end to that Evil practice . To which the Comptroller anfwer'd , and faid , Kings and Princes are born to be cheated . So would not meddle in it . This Sayl - maker afterwards proved it to his Face , before divers ...
... Offenders , and put an end to that Evil practice . To which the Comptroller anfwer'd , and faid , Kings and Princes are born to be cheated . So would not meddle in it . This Sayl - maker afterwards proved it to his Face , before divers ...
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... Offenders , ( as bath been practifed bi- therto , and the Caufe of all the Nati- ons Mifery ) is no other than putting the People , as it were , out of the Fry- ing Pan into the Fire . For it Con- temns the Law , Condemns the Innocent ...
... Offenders , ( as bath been practifed bi- therto , and the Caufe of all the Nati- ons Mifery ) is no other than putting the People , as it were , out of the Fry- ing Pan into the Fire . For it Con- temns the Law , Condemns the Innocent ...
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... Offenders . Vertue and Vice being progreffive , and gain the Afcendant one of the other , ac- cording as they are more or less coun- tenanced and Encouraged by the Civil Magiftrate , who are the Minifters of God for Good , fo long as ...
... Offenders . Vertue and Vice being progreffive , and gain the Afcendant one of the other , ac- cording as they are more or less coun- tenanced and Encouraged by the Civil Magiftrate , who are the Minifters of God for Good , fo long as ...
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... Offenders , is , That they may out - live their Honour and Eftates . Better a few fuffer juftly , than the whole Nation be ruined . And in this cafe there's no medium . For all the Mony in the Kingdom won't fill a Sack that has no ...
... Offenders , is , That they may out - live their Honour and Eftates . Better a few fuffer juftly , than the whole Nation be ruined . And in this cafe there's no medium . For all the Mony in the Kingdom won't fill a Sack that has no ...
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