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NYM(G.783.025
26 May 1783:11 (1649)
[Continuation of extracts from a pamphlet supposed to be
wrote by Aedanus Burke, Esq; one of the chief justices of
South-Carolina, and lately published at Philadelphia.]
V. On the Confiscation Act. . . [10 lines]
he must be more or less than man who cannot feel compassion
and sorrow for the unhappy lot of human nature, and cry out
with Shakespear,
Merciful sweet Heaven!
Who rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt,
Splitst the unwedgeable and knarled oak,
Than the soft myrtle. O! but man, proud man,
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