liberty of speech
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We dare, nevertheless, to appeal with confidence upon everything now advanced, to the testimony of all the honest and sincere members of the Regency, that your Serene Highness shall deign to interrogate, after granting them full liberty of speech, and summoning them to answer according to their duty and their conscience.
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There is an occasional student who tries to convert liberty of speech on the discussion day into license, and of him the professor makes short work.
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And for certain, severe as she was, she permitted some liberty of speech on the subject.
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Giving to every man liberty of speech in his theatres, the Rotunda was attended bv all the public men of note out of parliament; and the public meetings there became so frequent and so large, that the government took alarm, and the prophecy of the day was, that the Rotunda would cause a Revolution in England.
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He is given almost absolute liberty of speech, and it is a privilege that he never should abuse.
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