[01:53.89]But when a long train of abuses and usurpations,
[01:58.16]pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them
[02:03.63]under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty,
[02:08.88]to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guardsfor t heirfuture security.
[02:15.56]—Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies;
[02:20.58]and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter th
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eirformer Systems of Government.
[02:28.49]The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III]
[02:34.00]is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations,
[02:38.82]allhaving in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyra nny over these States.
[02:45.49]To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
[00:01.38]Passage 6.ATribute to theDog
[00:06.08]The bestfriend aman has in the world may turn against him and become his enemy.
[00:13.42]His son ordaughter that he has rearedwith loving care mayprove ungr
cloud upon ourheads.
[00:58.50]The one absolutely unselfishfriend thatman can have in this selfish world,
[01:05.61]the one that neverdeserts him,
[01:08.45]the one that neverproves ungratefulor treacherous, is his dog.
[01:13.81]Aman’sdogstandsbyhim inprosperityandinpoverty, in health and in sickness.