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8642. TYRANNY, Systematic.—

Single
acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental
opinion of a day; but a series of oppressions,
begun at a distinguished period,
and pursued unalterably through every
change of ministers, too plainly prove a deliberate,
systematical plan of reducing us to
slavery.—
Rights of British America. Washington ed. i, 130. Ford ed., i, 435.
(1774)