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... England and of Europe , I believe no man is so strangely wicked as to desire to see destroyed by a conflagration or an earthquake , though he should be removed himself to the greatest distance G from the danger . But suppose such a ...
... England and of Europe , I believe no man is so strangely wicked as to desire to see destroyed by a conflagration or an earthquake , though he should be removed himself to the greatest distance G from the danger . But suppose such a ...
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... England . While the British seamen were consum- ing on board our men of war and privateers , foreign ships and foreign seamen were employed in the transportation of our merchandise ; and the carrying trade , so great a source of wealth ...
... England . While the British seamen were consum- ing on board our men of war and privateers , foreign ships and foreign seamen were employed in the transportation of our merchandise ; and the carrying trade , so great a source of wealth ...
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... England we shall never be taught to look upon the annihilation of our trade , the ruin of our credit , the defeat of our armies , and the loss of our ultramarine dominions , ( whatever the author may think of them , ) to be the highroad ...
... England we shall never be taught to look upon the annihilation of our trade , the ruin of our credit , the defeat of our armies , and the loss of our ultramarine dominions , ( whatever the author may think of them , ) to be the highroad ...
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... England , Europe , consider- ed it in that light ; all the world , except the then friends of the then ministry , who wept for our victories , and were in I P. 9 . 2 P. 6 . haste to get rid of the burden of our conquests 194 ...
... England , Europe , consider- ed it in that light ; all the world , except the then friends of the then ministry , who wept for our victories , and were in I P. 9 . 2 P. 6 . haste to get rid of the burden of our conquests 194 ...
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... England ; but he well knows who did put the most valuable of them into the hands of France . In the next place , our author is pleased to consider the conquest of those colonies in no other light than as a convenience for the ...
... England ; but he well knows who did put the most valuable of them into the hands of France . In the next place , our author is pleased to consider the conquest of those colonies in no other light than as a convenience for the ...
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