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But it is impoible that Men hould not ooner or later have made Reflections on o wretched a Situation, and upon the Calamities with which they were overwhelmed. The Rich in particular mut have oon perceived how much they uffered by a perpetual War, of which they alone upported all the Expence, and in which, tho' all riked Life, they alone risked any Subtance. Beides, whatever Colour they might pretend to give their Uurpations, they ufficiently aw that thee Uurpations were in the main founded upon fale and precarious Titles, and that what they had acquired by mere Force, others could again by mere Force wret out of their Hands, without leaving them the leat room to complain of uch a Proceeding. Even thoe, who owed all their Riches to their own IndutryInduſtryd [sic], could carce ground their