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Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.
Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.
Approximate author period: c. 1773 AD · early modern
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