Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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... force of our privateers in the late war , united , was greater , both in men and guns , than that of the whole British navy in queen Elizabeth's time . How important an affair then to Britain is the present treaty for settling the ...
... force of our privateers in the late war , united , was greater , both in men and guns , than that of the whole British navy in queen Elizabeth's time . How important an affair then to Britain is the present treaty for settling the ...
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... force that , methinks you should excuse the other . But it may be said , to give the king's seamen mer- chant's wages would cost the nation too much , and call for more taxes . The question then will amount to this : whether it be just ...
... force that , methinks you should excuse the other . But it may be said , to give the king's seamen mer- chant's wages would cost the nation too much , and call for more taxes . The question then will amount to this : whether it be just ...
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... force from his honest occupa- tion , and compelled to imbrue his hands in , perhaps , innocent blood . But methinks it well behooves mer- chants ( men more enlightened by their education , and perfectly free from any such force or ...
... force from his honest occupa- tion , and compelled to imbrue his hands in , perhaps , innocent blood . But methinks it well behooves mer- chants ( men more enlightened by their education , and perfectly free from any such force or ...
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Benjamin Franklin. and perfectly free from any such force or obliga- tion ) to consider well of the justice of a war , before they voluntarily engage a gang of ruffians to attack their fellow - merchants of a neighbouring nation , to ...
Benjamin Franklin. and perfectly free from any such force or obliga- tion ) to consider well of the justice of a war , before they voluntarily engage a gang of ruffians to attack their fellow - merchants of a neighbouring nation , to ...
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... force ; the laws made against it being rendered ineffectual by the liberty of the press . My proposal then is , to leave the liberty of the press untouched , to be exercised in its full extent , force , and vigour , but to permit the ...
... force ; the laws made against it being rendered ineffectual by the liberty of the press . My proposal then is , to leave the liberty of the press untouched , to be exercised in its full extent , force , and vigour , but to permit the ...
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