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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 74

[introduction]

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The spoil of the poor is in year houses. What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and of the poor ? saith the Lord God of Hosts.—Isaiah iii, 14, 15.

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