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"text": "[T]he slaveish sooty race boasts a succession of Codringtons as well as Griggs and Russells, and others of low degree, and that a sober Mr. Perrie and old Col. Williams, as well as young Mr. Warner, are in the list of their paramours etc., etc., yet these are the men that charge me of a lewd life and conversation.",
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"text": "“What illes betide the manne, who ſeekes to reſt / “His hope, upon the fraile, and footleſſe toppe / “Of vaine Ambition’s ladder!—His aſcent / “A ray of guileful fortune circleth rounde, / “To lure the ſlaveish gaze of baſe idolaters!",
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"text": "When able, ible, ing, ish, are added to a word ending in e, it is omitted in the spelling: as, blame, blamable, blaming; cure, curable, curing; sense, sensible; place, placing; lodge, lodging; slave, slavish; prude, prudish, &c.: not blameable, blameing, lodgeing, slaveish, &c.: but when the final e is immediately preceded by g and c soft, it is retained in connexion with able and ible: […]",
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"text": "[T]he slaveish subservience of the church to the King, the adulation of the courtiers in the very house of God, and the general falseness and trickery of the Catholic church in its principles and its performances, are sketched with a steady hand, while anticipatory allusions to the after-perpetrated enormity of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes frequently occur.",
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