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Excerpt from The Works of Sir William Jones, Vol. 2 of 13: With the Life of the Author
Independently of my general pre fumption, that whatever you determine is right, I cannot but admit the folidity of the reafons, which induce you to decline that precedence, to which, if our fociety were in its full vigour infiead of being in its cradle, you would have a title paramount to all, who have been, are, or will be, in this country.
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