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Sword

,—a weapon of offence and defence, put into the hands of mercenary tropps, to deal de­struction to all within their infernal reach. The tyrant William III. ordered the massacre of Glencoe, in which neither age nor sex were spared. A similar event, it has been reported, took place, a few years since, at Lexington, in America. Of what materials are Princes made? I should uch like to know whether their anatomy and physiology be the same as other men!—How can they ever procure men to murder for them at six-pence a day?

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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.

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Sword