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... secure , and permanent , by the act for opening certain ports in Dominica and Jamaica . That administration was the first which proposed and encouraged publick meetings and free confultations of merchants from all parts of the kingdom ...
... secure , and permanent , by the act for opening certain ports in Dominica and Jamaica . That administration was the first which proposed and encouraged publick meetings and free confultations of merchants from all parts of the kingdom ...
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... security His undertaking is great . The purpose of this painphlet , and at which it aims directly or obliquely in cvery page , is to persuade thc publick of three or four of the most difficult points in the worldthat all the advantages ...
... security His undertaking is great . The purpose of this painphlet , and at which it aims directly or obliquely in cvery page , is to persuade thc publick of three or four of the most difficult points in the worldthat all the advantages ...
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... secure to ourselves the advantages of peace , we are at the same time utterly unfit for war . It is impossible , if this state of things be credited abroad , that we can have any alliance ; all nations will fly from fo dangerous a ...
... secure to ourselves the advantages of peace , we are at the same time utterly unfit for war . It is impossible , if this state of things be credited abroad , that we can have any alliance ; all nations will fly from fo dangerous a ...
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... security as in the time of peace . — Her armies in Germany had been “ hitherto prevented from seizing upon Hanover ; “ but they continued to encamp on the same ground on which the first battle was fought ; " and , as it must ever happen ...
... security as in the time of peace . — Her armies in Germany had been “ hitherto prevented from seizing upon Hanover ; “ but they continued to encamp on the same ground on which the first battle was fought ; " and , as it must ever happen ...
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... security froin destruction . To have stated thcsc reasonings is cnough , I prefume , to do their businets . But they are accompanied with falls and records , which may seem of a little more weight . I trust however that thic C4 facts of ...
... security froin destruction . To have stated thcsc reasonings is cnough , I prefume , to do their businets . But they are accompanied with falls and records , which may seem of a little more weight . I trust however that thic C4 facts of ...
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