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... colonies, before that time jarring and dissonant, were understood, compared, adjusted, and perfectly reconciled. The passions and animosities of the colonies, by judicious and lenient measures, were allayed and composed, and the ...
... colonies, before that time jarring and dissonant, were understood, compared, adjusted, and perfectly reconciled. The passions and animosities of the colonies, by judicious and lenient measures, were allayed and composed, and the ...
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... colonies had put themselves into our hands.” Now, in justice, not only to fact and common sense, but to the incomparable valor and perseverance of our military and naval forces thus unhandsomely traduced, I must tell this author, that ...
... colonies had put themselves into our hands.” Now, in justice, not only to fact and common sense, but to the incomparable valor and perseverance of our military and naval forces thus unhandsomely traduced, I must tell this author, that ...
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... colonies into the hands of England; but he well knows who did put the most valuable of them into the hands of France. In the next place, our author[44] is pleased to consider the conquest of those colonies in no other light than as a ...
... colonies into the hands of England; but he well knows who did put the most valuable of them into the hands of France. In the next place, our author[44] is pleased to consider the conquest of those colonies in no other light than as a ...
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... colonies lightened the expenses of France, facilitated her remittances, and therefore her colonists put them into our hands. According to this author's system, the actual possession of those colonies ought to give us little or no ...
... colonies lightened the expenses of France, facilitated her remittances, and therefore her colonists put them into our hands. According to this author's system, the actual possession of those colonies ought to give us little or no ...
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... colonies might be induced to take off Great Britain, and defray between them, in the proportion of 200,000_l. by the colonies, and 100,000_l. by Ireland.” Such is the whole of this mighty scheme. Take his reduced estimate, and his ...
... colonies might be induced to take off Great Britain, and defray between them, in the proportion of 200,000_l. by the colonies, and 100,000_l. by Ireland.” Such is the whole of this mighty scheme. Take his reduced estimate, and his ...
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