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... peace of Paris perfectly confulted the dignity and interest of this country ; and that the American Stampaćt was a master - piece of policy and finance ; that the only good minister this nation has enjoyed fince his Majesty's accession ...
... peace of Paris perfectly confulted the dignity and interest of this country ; and that the American Stampaćt was a master - piece of policy and finance ; that the only good minister this nation has enjoyed fince his Majesty's accession ...
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... 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 connexion , left , instead of being ...
... 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 connexion , left , instead of being ...
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... peace , trade , and finances . These principles are of infinite moment . They must come again and again under consideration ; and it imports the publick , of all things , that those of its ministers be enlarged , and just , and well ...
... peace , trade , and finances . These principles are of infinite moment . They must come again and again under consideration ; and it imports the publick , of all things , that those of its ministers be enlarged , and just , and well ...
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... peace preceding it.“ The conquest of the Havamah had , indeed , “ stopped the remittance of fpecic from Mexico to “ Spain ; but it had not enabled England to seize “ it : on the contrary , our merchants suffered by " the detention of ...
... peace preceding it.“ The conquest of the Havamah had , indeed , “ stopped the remittance of fpecic from Mexico to “ Spain ; but it had not enabled England to seize “ it : on the contrary , our merchants suffered by " the detention of ...
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... 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 from the policy of " that ...
... 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 from the policy of " that ...
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