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Page 30 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
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Page 150 - Resolved, that the first adventurers and settlers of this, his majesty's colony and dominion, brought with them, and transmitted to their posterity and all other his majesty's subjects since inhabiting in this his majesty's said colony, all the privileges, franchises, and immunities, that have, at any time, been held, enjoyed and possessed, by the people of Great Britain.
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| Title | The American Historical Record, Volume 3 Volume 67 of American periodical series, 1850-1900 |
| Editor | Benson John Lossing |
| Publisher | Chase & Town, 1874 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Oct 9, 2007 |
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