Word: publick
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...Drunkenness: five shilling or a "publick confession...
...Shall Presume to put on or wear Indecent Apparrell, he shall be punished According to the Nature and degree Offence, by the President or one of the Tutors; but if he wears womens Apprell, he shall be liable to publick admonition, degradation or Expulsion...
...these, our first patriots, freedom of speech, even jarring, unpopular speech, was a right worth dying for. Paine upheld "the right of every man to his opinion, however different that opinion may be to mine." Franklin said, "Without freedom of thought there can be no such thing as . . . publick liberty." Jefferson believed "uniformity of opinion" was no more desirable than uniformity "of face and stature." Staid George Washington warned against "the impostures of pretended patriotism...