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... perhaps his indignation, if he should find that this great financier has fallen into the most unaccountable of all errors, no less an error than that of mistaking the identical sums borrowed by France upon interest, for supplies raised ...
... perhaps his indignation, if he should find that this great financier has fallen into the most unaccountable of all errors, no less an error than that of mistaking the identical sums borrowed by France upon interest, for supplies raised ...
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Edmund Burke. the most cruel and desolating civil war that perhaps was ever known. The kingdom, under the veil of ... perhaps equal to our wishes, but more than ever we possessed. In effect, no pretender to the crown; nor nutriment ...
Edmund Burke. the most cruel and desolating civil war that perhaps was ever known. The kingdom, under the veil of ... perhaps equal to our wishes, but more than ever we possessed. In effect, no pretender to the crown; nor nutriment ...
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... perhaps that was ever known; the best secured against all frauds in the collection, and all misapplication in the expenditure of public money. I admit that, in this flourishing state of things, there are appearances enough to excite ...
... perhaps that was ever known; the best secured against all frauds in the collection, and all misapplication in the expenditure of public money. I admit that, in this flourishing state of things, there are appearances enough to excite ...
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... perhaps it might rather serve to counteract, than to promote the ends that are proposed by it. To say nothing of the horrible disorders among the people attending frequent elections, I should be fearful of committing, every three years ...
... perhaps it might rather serve to counteract, than to promote the ends that are proposed by it. To say nothing of the horrible disorders among the people attending frequent elections, I should be fearful of committing, every three years ...
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... perhaps, that they should have a corrupt interest in the forms of the constitution, than that they should have none at all. This is a question altogether different from the disqualification of a particular description of revenueofficers ...
... perhaps, that they should have a corrupt interest in the forms of the constitution, than that they should have none at all. This is a question altogether different from the disqualification of a particular description of revenueofficers ...
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