unlawfulness

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“The last paper he wrote, was ‘The Commission of the Kirk's Answer to the State's Observations on the Declaration of the General Assembly anent the Unlawfulness of the Engagement.’

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George

For is not this continual text of his, at bottom a rather barren one: How astonishing that in a time of Revolt and abrogation of all Law but Cannon Law, there should be such Unlawfulness?

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

In The Absolute Unlawfulness of Stage Entertainments fully demonstrated, William Law attacked dramatic representations, not on account of the evils at that time associated with them, but as 'in their own nature grossly sinful.'

From The Age of Pope (1700-1744) by Dennis, John