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... ministry , dangerous froin its very constitution , as well as its measures , to find themselves , whenever they faced their adversaries , continually attacked on the rear by a set of men , who pretended to be actuated by motives similar ...
... ministry , dangerous froin its very constitution , as well as its measures , to find themselves , whenever they faced their adversaries , continually attacked on the rear by a set of men , who pretended to be actuated by motives similar ...
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... minister this nation has enjoyed fince his Majesty's accession , is tlic Earl of Bute ; and the only good managers of revenue we have secn - are Lord Delpenser and Mr. George Grenvillc ; and under the description of men of virtue and ...
... minister this nation has enjoyed fince his Majesty's accession , is tlic Earl of Bute ; and the only good managers of revenue we have secn - are Lord Delpenser and Mr. George Grenvillc ; and under the description of men of virtue and ...
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... ministry , who wept for our victories , and were în haste to get rid of the burthen of our conquefts . This author knows that France did not put those colonies into the hands of England ; but he he well knows who did put the most ...
... ministry , who wept for our victories , and were în haste to get rid of the burthen of our conquefts . This author knows that France did not put those colonies into the hands of England ; but he he well knows who did put the most ...
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... minister , he is the true friend to Britain , who shall be able to restorc it . To return to the security for the peace . The author tells us , that the original great purposes of the war were more than accomplished by thc treaty ...
... minister , he is the true friend to Britain , who shall be able to restorc it . To return to the security for the peace . The author tells us , that the original great purposes of the war were more than accomplished by thc treaty ...
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... minister received his instructions , not from Madrid ; but from Versailles . This was not hid from our ministers at home , and the discovery ought to have alarmed them , if the good of their country had been the object of their anxiety ...
... minister received his instructions , not from Madrid ; but from Versailles . This was not hid from our ministers at home , and the discovery ought to have alarmed them , if the good of their country had been the object of their anxiety ...
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