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Excerpt from A Word to the Freeholders and Burgesses of Great Britain: Being Seasonable and Serious Remarks Upon the Inconsistent Conduct of Certain Boroughs in Sending Instructions to Their Representatives to Oppose the Excise Bill, and Yet Re-Electing Them After Their Being Rewarded With Places for Voting for the Same
If theic worjbipful Gentry could fefer by them felves, for inch an inconfitlent Conduei, l fhould freely give my Vore for it, neither, l dare fay, would any one pity them 5 fuch llavilh Souls are: fit for nothing but Servitude, nor know they the Value of Liberty, they would not elfe, like fifim, barter away their Birth-tight for a'mefs of poe tage: Bur let us leave fuch abjeet Wretches as incorrigible and irreclaimable; perhaps, when it is [00 late, they may fee their Error. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.