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 1 2 |     which the experience of the eldest and best has agreed to be
 2 3 |   devastations; and did not the eldest then rule among them, because
 3 3 |        be under the rule of the eldest, and, owing to their separation
 4 6 |         as far as they can, the eldest and best of the colonists,
 5 9 |     speeches have been made the eldest judge shall begin to examine
 6 10|        things in motion, is the eldest and mightiest principle
 7 11|         trial with three of the eldest of the magistrates; and
 8 11|      guardians. And the fifteen eldest guardians of the law shall
 9 11|    shall first of all go to the eldest guardians of the law and
10 11|         one to inform the three eldest guardians of the law, and
11 11|         every single one of the eldest citizens shall be the judges,
12 12|   guardians of the law, the ten eldest being chosen; the general
13 12|        mentioned—that it is the eldest, and most divine of all
14 12| principles—that the soul is the eldest of all things which are