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The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson

CHAPTER VI
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"There are upwards of forty thousand families," said he, "who have relations confined.

If some act of oblivion is not passed, there will be no end of persecution; for the people of this country have no idea of anything but revenge, and to gain a point would swear ten thousand false oaths.

Constant efforts are made to get a man taken up, in order to rob him.

The confiscated property does not reach the king's treasury.

All thieves! It is selling for nothing.


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