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... France . But as pain is stronger in its operation than pleasure , so death is in general a much more affecting idea than pain ; because there are very few pains , however exquisite , which are not preferred to death : nay , what gener ...
... France . But as pain is stronger in its operation than pleasure , so death is in general a much more affecting idea than pain ; because there are very few pains , however exquisite , which are not preferred to death : nay , what gener ...
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... France , bankrupt France , had no such cala- mities impending over her ; her distresses were great , but they were immediate and temporary ; her want of credit preserved her from a great increase of debt , and the loss of her ultrama ...
... France , bankrupt France , had no such cala- mities impending over her ; her distresses were great , but they were immediate and temporary ; her want of credit preserved her from a great increase of debt , and the loss of her ultrama ...
Page 192
... France ? Can we ever flatter ourselves that we shall wage a more successful war ? If , on our part , in a war the most prosperous we ever carried on , by sea and by land , and in every part of the globe , attended with the unparalleled ...
... France ? Can we ever flatter ourselves that we shall wage a more successful war ? If , on our part , in a war the most prosperous we ever carried on , by sea and by land , and in every part of the globe , attended with the unparalleled ...
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... France , and to take her losing cards into our hands . But though his principles drive him to it , his politics will not suffer him to walk on this ground . Talking at our ease and of other countries , we may bear to be diverted with ...
... France , and to take her losing cards into our hands . But though his principles drive him to it , his politics will not suffer him to walk on this ground . Talking at our ease and of other countries , we may bear to be diverted with ...
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... France , has thought proper to inform us , ' that " they put themselves into the hands of the English . " He uses the same assertion , in nearly the same words , in another place ; 2 ; 2 “ her colonies had put themselves into our hands ...
... France , has thought proper to inform us , ' that " they put themselves into the hands of the English . " He uses the same assertion , in nearly the same words , in another place ; 2 ; 2 “ her colonies had put themselves into our hands ...
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