,—a form of prayer, unprofitable, inconvenient, and useless, when directed from the People to the minister; but sure, certain, and infallible, when in the form of a parlimentary act it requests money from the nation.
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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.
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