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6051. OFFICE, Declination of.—[continued].

Though I will admit
that * * * reason does subject every individual,
if called on, to an equal tour of
political duty, yet it never can go so far as
to submit to it his whole existence.—
To James Monroe. Washington ed. i, 319. Ford ed., iii, 58.
(M. 1782)