Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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Page 7
... English ; and were the English now driven into Wales by some foreign nation , there would , in a few years , be no more Englishmen in Britain [ than there are now people in Wales . 3. Loss of trade . Manufactures , exported , draw ...
... English ; and were the English now driven into Wales by some foreign nation , there would , in a few years , be no more Englishmen in Britain [ than there are now people in Wales . 3. Loss of trade . Manufactures , exported , draw ...
Page 8
... English sugar islands have greatly diminished the whites there ; the poor are by this means deprived of employment , while a few families acquire vast estates , which they spend on foreign luxuries ; and , educating their children in ...
... English sugar islands have greatly diminished the whites there ; the poor are by this means deprived of employment , while a few families acquire vast estates , which they spend on foreign luxuries ; and , educating their children in ...
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... English- men deserve such honour , by communicating the knowledge and use , not of corn only , but of all the other enjoyments earth can produce , and which they are now in posession of ! Communiter bona profun- dere , Deum est . " Many ...
... English- men deserve such honour , by communicating the knowledge and use , not of corn only , but of all the other enjoyments earth can produce , and which they are now in posession of ! Communiter bona profun- dere , Deum est . " Many ...
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... will see , in a very different spirit . The English au- thor is for hanging all thieves ; the Frenchman is COMMERCIAL AND POLITICAL . 51 On the impress of seamen On the criminal laws, and the practice of privateering.
... will see , in a very different spirit . The English au- thor is for hanging all thieves ; the Frenchman is COMMERCIAL AND POLITICAL . 51 On the impress of seamen On the criminal laws, and the practice of privateering.
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... English subjects , when he applauds the reply of judge Burnet to the convict horse - steal- er ; who , being asked what he had to say why judg- ment of death should not pass against him , and an- swering , that it was hard to hang a man ...
... English subjects , when he applauds the reply of judge Burnet to the convict horse - steal- er ; who , being asked what he had to say why judg- ment of death should not pass against him , and an- swering , that it was hard to hang a man ...
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