 ... that, on the father's decease, the property of a nation, like that of a drove of oxen, descends to his infant son, as yet unknown to mankind and to himself, and that the bravest warriors and the wisest statesmen, relinquishing their natural right...  The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer - Page 162edited by - 1792Full view - About this book
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