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... answer on their Journals , and by adjourning the Money Bill obliged him to transmit purely and simply their resolutions . It would have been well if this victory of the Commons had been employed to secure any benefit for the people at ...
... answer on their Journals , and by adjourning the Money Bill obliged him to transmit purely and simply their resolutions . It would have been well if this victory of the Commons had been employed to secure any benefit for the people at ...
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... answer you . " His grievances are thus related : - - " Sir Robert , I am now here in the agreeable circum- stance of being kept every day till six or seven o'clock in the House of Commons , upon one nonsensical motion or another . I am ...
... answer you . " His grievances are thus related : - - " Sir Robert , I am now here in the agreeable circum- stance of being kept every day till six or seven o'clock in the House of Commons , upon one nonsensical motion or another . I am ...
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... answer to one I wrote him before the old man died ; and I did not doubt , after I read it , my success ; and , if anything could be added to the value of the thing itself , I own it is the gracious manner in which I have received it ...
... answer to one I wrote him before the old man died ; and I did not doubt , after I read it , my success ; and , if anything could be added to the value of the thing itself , I own it is the gracious manner in which I have received it ...
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... answer one good purpose , it will shorten the session : for most of the patriots are gone to do their country as little service with their hands and their militias , as they do with their heads at College Green . " The capture of ...
... answer one good purpose , it will shorten the session : for most of the patriots are gone to do their country as little service with their hands and their militias , as they do with their heads at College Green . " The capture of ...
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... answer you gave M. Puisieux in relation to his guaranteeing the last convention made at Brus- selles ; but as that affair is now entirely at an end , I shall not trouble you any farther on this subject . Your conversation with M ...
... answer you gave M. Puisieux in relation to his guaranteeing the last convention made at Brus- selles ; but as that affair is now entirely at an end , I shall not trouble you any farther on this subject . Your conversation with M ...
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