"The idea of governing provinces and colonies by force is visionary and chimerical. The experiment has often been tried, and it has never succeeded. It ends infallibly in the ruin of one country or the other."
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Jonathan Shipley
Jonathan Shipley (1714 – 6 December 1788) was a clergyman who held offices in the Church of England (including Dean of Winchester from 1760 to 1769), and who served as Bishop of Llandaff from January to September 1769 and as Bishop of St Asaph from September 1769 until his death.
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