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... Spain , Greece , and Africa , carrying destruction before them as they advanced , and leaving horrid deserts every way behind them . Vastum ubique silentium , secreti colles ; fumantia procul tecta ; nemo exploratoribus obvius , is what ...
... Spain , Greece , and Africa , carrying destruction before them as they advanced , and leaving horrid deserts every way behind them . Vastum ubique silentium , secreti colles ; fumantia procul tecta ; nemo exploratoribus obvius , is what ...
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... Spain ; but it had not enabled England to seize it : on the contrary , our merchants suffered by the detention of the galleons , as their correspondents in Spain were disabled from paying them for their goods sent to America . The loss ...
... Spain ; but it had not enabled England to seize it : on the contrary , our merchants suffered by the detention of the galleons , as their correspondents in Spain were disabled from paying them for their goods sent to America . The loss ...
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... Spain , if they had any remittance to make ; he will see , that we imported from those places , in that year , to the amount of £ 1,395,300 . So far was the whole annual produce of these islands from being adequate to the payments of ...
... Spain , if they had any remittance to make ; he will see , that we imported from those places , in that year , to the amount of £ 1,395,300 . So far was the whole annual produce of these islands from being adequate to the payments of ...
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... Spain , such an assistance would not be of absolute necessity ? that it would not be the most gross of all follies to refuse it ? of In the next place , his method of stating a medium of six years war , and six years of peace , to ...
... Spain , such an assistance would not be of absolute necessity ? that it would not be the most gross of all follies to refuse it ? of In the next place , his method of stating a medium of six years war , and six years of peace , to ...
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... Spain , rather distressed England , says our author.4 But the molestation which her galleons may suffer from our station in Pensacola gives us advantages , for which we were not allowed to credit the nation for the Havannah itself ; a ...
... Spain , rather distressed England , says our author.4 But the molestation which her galleons may suffer from our station in Pensacola gives us advantages , for which we were not allowed to credit the nation for the Havannah itself ; a ...
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