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... hands, the manufacturers were next to be tempted to quit the anvil and the loom by higher offers.—France, bankrupt France, had no such calamities impending over her; her distresses were great, but they were immediate and temporary; her ...
... hands, the manufacturers were next to be tempted to quit the anvil and the loom by higher offers.—France, bankrupt France, had no such calamities impending over her; her distresses were great, but they were immediate and temporary; her ...
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Edmund Burke. themselves into the hands of the English.” He uses the same assertion, in nearly the same words, in another place;[43] “her colonies had put themselves into our hands.” Now, in justice, not only to fact and common sense ...
Edmund Burke. themselves into the hands of the English.” He uses the same assertion, in nearly the same words, in another place;[43] “her colonies had put themselves into our hands.” Now, in justice, not only to fact and common sense ...
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... 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 convenience for 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 convenience for the ...
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... hands in England, page 9, unless he supposes manufactures to be made without hands, I really do not see. It is painful to be so frequently obliged to set this author right in matters of fact. This state will fully refute all that he has ...
... hands in England, page 9, unless he supposes manufactures to be made without hands, I really do not see. It is painful to be so frequently obliged to set this author right in matters of fact. This state will fully refute all that he has ...
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Edmund Burke. ministers. On the other hand, the peculiar character of the House of Commons, as trustee of the public ... hands the principal, and indeed only effectual, means of compelling a full and fair one. But, in national business ...
Edmund Burke. ministers. On the other hand, the peculiar character of the House of Commons, as trustee of the public ... hands the principal, and indeed only effectual, means of compelling a full and fair one. But, in national business ...
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