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enjoying ſuch invaluable Privileges as they do here: And it would be thought a very unjuſt Reply from an arbitrary Prince in Defence of his tyrannical Proceedings, that he treated his Subjects better here, than the Grand Seignior treated his Slaves in Turkey.
Obj. X. All theſe are rare Caſes, and for the generality Wives have no Reaſon to complain.
But no Thanks to the Laws of our Country for that Exemption; let every particular Woman who is well treated, thank God and her Huſband for the Bleſſing. At the ſame Time, ſhe may reflect, that ſhe is in the Condition of a Slave, tho' ſhe is not treated as ſuch, according to the Opinion of a late eminent Member of the Houſe of Commons, who declared in that honourable Aſſembly, that he thought "that Nation in a State of Slavery, where any Man had it in his Power to make them ſo, tho' perhaps the Rod might not always be held over their Backs."
Tho' I have taken the Liberty to ſpeak my ſenſe of theſe Laws, and the Conſequences of them, which are the Cauſes of our Complaint; and alſo to anſwer ſome Objections, which I ſuppos'd might be made,
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