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... regulations have done more mischief in cold blood, than all the rage of the fiercest animals in their greatest terrors, or furies, has ever done, or ever could do! These evils are not accidental. Whoever will take the pains to consider ...
... regulations have done more mischief in cold blood, than all the rage of the fiercest animals in their greatest terrors, or furies, has ever done, or ever could do! These evils are not accidental. Whoever will take the pains to consider ...
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... regulations to prevent it, the simple name of man applied properly, never fails to work a salutary effect. This natural unpremeditated effect of policy on the unpossessed passions of mankind appears on other occasions. The very name of ...
... regulations to prevent it, the simple name of man applied properly, never fails to work a salutary effect. This natural unpremeditated effect of policy on the unpossessed passions of mankind appears on other occasions. The very name of ...
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... must certainly feel. Care has not been wanting to introduce economy into that part of the service. The author's great friend has made, I admit, some regulations: his immediate successors have made more and better. This part will.
... must certainly feel. Care has not been wanting to introduce economy into that part of the service. The author's great friend has made, I admit, some regulations: his immediate successors have made more and better. This part will.
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... regulations would be very simple, and mutually beneficial to Great Britain and her colonies, if the old navigation laws were adhered to.”[86] That “the transportation should be in all cases in ships belonging to British subjects.” That ...
... regulations would be very simple, and mutually beneficial to Great Britain and her colonies, if the old navigation laws were adhered to.”[86] That “the transportation should be in all cases in ships belonging to British subjects.” That ...
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... regulations for the colony trade would be few and simple if the old navigation laws were adhered to,” I utterly deny as a fact. That they ought to be so, sounds well enough; but this proposition is of the same nugatory nature with some ...
... regulations for the colony trade would be few and simple if the old navigation laws were adhered to,” I utterly deny as a fact. That they ought to be so, sounds well enough; but this proposition is of the same nugatory nature with some ...
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