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Quote by Samuel Marsden
I feel happy that I am in the Land of Liberty, where the violent Hand of Oppression can do me no Injury.
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The speaker says they are happy to live in a place where liberty protects them from oppression. “The violent Hand of Oppression” presents oppression as a force that could cause harm, while the “Land of Liberty” is described as a place where that harm cannot reach them.
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- State Library of New South Wales, letter received by Banks from Samuel Marsden, 28 September 1808
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