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... never difficult to fathom his design . The apparent intention of this author is to draw the most aggravated , hideous , and deformed picture of the ftate of this country , which his querulous cloquence , aided by the arbitrary dominion ...
... never difficult to fathom his design . The apparent intention of this author is to draw the most aggravated , hideous , and deformed picture of the ftate of this country , which his querulous cloquence , aided by the arbitrary dominion ...
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... never be taught to look upon the annihilation of our trade , the ruin of our credit , the defeat of our arınies , and the loss of our ultramarine dominions ( wliatever the author may think of them ) , to be the high road to prosperity ...
... never be taught to look upon the annihilation of our trade , the ruin of our credit , the defeat of our arınies , and the loss of our ultramarine dominions ( wliatever the author may think of them ) , to be the high road to prosperity ...
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... Never was any thing more deftitute of foundation . It might be proved with the greatest eafe , from the nature and quality of the goods exported , as well as from the situation of the places to which our merchandise was sent , and which ...
... Never was any thing more deftitute of foundation . It might be proved with the greatest eafe , from the nature and quality of the goods exported , as well as from the situation of the places to which our merchandise was sent , and which ...
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... never been hcard of . No war ever bore that test but the war which hc so bitterly laments . One may lay it down as a maxim , that an average estimate of an object in a stcady course of rising or of falling , niust in its nature be an ...
... never been hcard of . No war ever bore that test but the war which hc so bitterly laments . One may lay it down as a maxim , that an average estimate of an object in a stcady course of rising or of falling , niust in its nature be an ...
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... never to be thaken . But how did the virtuous and able men of our author labour for this great end ? They took no one step towards it . On the contrary they countenanced , and indeed , as far as it depended on them , recognised it in ...
... never to be thaken . But how did the virtuous and able men of our author labour for this great end ? They took no one step towards it . On the contrary they countenanced , and indeed , as far as it depended on them , recognised it in ...
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