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[clxii. 45] 1820 June 18 Emancipation
[clxii. 45]

1820 June 18

Emancipation Spanish

S11. Rulers arguments

Those of the lowest order by thousands name those of a higher orders by scores who concurr in naming those units by whom when collected in a National Assembly the power of those by /among/ whom the highest offices and the patronage of the inferior /subordinate/ ones is shared. True /Good/. But from this branch of power such as it is how is it that to a sharer in it the value of a farthing - of a maravedi - can ever be received? A phantom of price such as this, is it possible that in the breast of one out of a hundred of one out of a thousand it can outweigh and compensate for the heavy and most acutely sensible burthen which is applied by and as both shew[s?] is inseparable from the possession of it? Will the great majority receive any /the least/ enjoyment from the possession of a power of the effects of which he has no perception and in which he does not feel in himself the exercise?
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