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lute controul over them, and that their liberties, lives, and properties were at the entire diſpoſal of him and his wife: that it was not fit that he who was allowed to be omnipreſent, immortal, and incapable of error, ſhould be confined by the ſhackles of the Great Paper; or obliged to fulfil the bonds he had given them, which he averred he had a right to cancel whenever he pleaſed.
His wife alſo became intoxicated with vanity. The ſteward had told her that ſhe was an omnipotent Goddeſs, and ought to be worſhipped as ſuch: that it was the height of impudence and disobedience in the new ſettlers to diſpute her authority, which with reſpect to them, was unlimited: that as they had removed from their father’s family, they had forfeited all pretenſions of being conſidered as his children, and loſt the privileges of the Great Paper: that, therefore, ſhe might look on them only as tenants at will upon her huſband’s farm, and exact from them what rent ſhe pleaſed.
All this was perfectly agreeable to Madam, who admitted this new doctrine in its full ſenſe.
The people of the new farm however took little notice of theſe pompous declara-
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