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Page 73
... look back so little a way behind us , and see that even in less than two hundred years , all this ( now so self - wise ) part of the world did not so much as know whether there was any such a place as a Russia , a China , a Guinea , a ...
... look back so little a way behind us , and see that even in less than two hundred years , all this ( now so self - wise ) part of the world did not so much as know whether there was any such a place as a Russia , a China , a Guinea , a ...
Page 84
... not the necessaries of life , they can scarcely be called the conveniences ; and yet , only because they look pretty , how many want to have them ! By these and other extravagancies , the 84 FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS AND LETTERS ,
... not the necessaries of life , they can scarcely be called the conveniences ; and yet , only because they look pretty , how many want to have them ! By these and other extravagancies , the 84 FRANKLIN'S ESSAYS AND LETTERS ,
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... look on a piece of sugar without conceiving it stain- ed with spots of human blood ! had he added the consideration of the wars we make to take and re- take the sugar islands from one another , and the fleets and armies that perish in ...
... look on a piece of sugar without conceiving it stain- ed with spots of human blood ! had he added the consideration of the wars we make to take and re- take the sugar islands from one another , and the fleets and armies that perish in ...
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On the criminal laws and the practice of privateering | 51 |
A dialogue between Great Britain France Spain | 107 |
The internal state of America being a true descrip | 121 |
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