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1780. 4 Sittings [Friday]

Mr. Lawrence, another of the Advocates of the Company.
One of the greatest Lawyers of this Age, when he was sensible he was engaged in a cause against the wishes of his Audience, apologized, by saying he was a Machine whose Organs any Man had a right to use, at a stipulated Price. I mean Mr. Dunning when he was speaking against Somerset, and for the claim of him as a Slave.
Englishmen, in all Countries, seem to expect to be govern’d exactly as they
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