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... just one year and twenty days . In that 1pace of time The distractions of the British empire were composed , by the repeal of the American stamp act ; But the constitutional superiority of Great Britain was preserved , by the art for ...
... just one year and twenty days . In that 1pace of time The distractions of the British empire were composed , by the repeal of the American stamp act ; But the constitutional superiority of Great Britain was preserved , by the art for ...
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... just , and might have been useful . But far the greater and much the worst part of the state which he exhibits is owing , according to his representation , not to accidental and extrinfick mischiefs attendant on the nation , but to its ...
... just , and might have been useful . But far the greater and much the worst part of the state which he exhibits is owing , according to his representation , not to accidental and extrinfick mischiefs attendant on the nation , but to its ...
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... just , and well confirmed , upon all these subjects . What notions this author entertains , we shall see presently ; notions in my opinion very irrational , and extremely dangerous ; and which , if they should crawl from pamphlets into ...
... just , and well confirmed , upon all these subjects . What notions this author entertains , we shall see presently ; notions in my opinion very irrational , and extremely dangerous ; and which , if they should crawl from pamphlets into ...
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... just but when the object Auctuates , and no reason can be assigned why it should not continue ftill to fluctuate . The author chụses to allow nothing years of nothing at all for this : he lias taken an 34 OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE.
... just but when the object Auctuates , and no reason can be assigned why it should not continue ftill to fluctuate . The author chụses to allow nothing years of nothing at all for this : he lias taken an 34 OBSERVATIONS ON A LATE.
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... had , as we have just seen , encreased to fo astonishing a degree in 1761 , as to employ British and foreign ships to the amount of 707,659 tons , D 2 which which is 149,500 more than we employed in the last STATE OF THE NATION . 35.
... had , as we have just seen , encreased to fo astonishing a degree in 1761 , as to employ British and foreign ships to the amount of 707,659 tons , D 2 which which is 149,500 more than we employed in the last STATE OF THE NATION . 35.
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