Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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... respect to the people that make them ) generative laws , as , by increasing subsistence , they encourage marriage . Such laws likewise strengthen a country doubly , by increasing its own people , and diminishing its neighbours . 17 ...
... respect to the people that make them ) generative laws , as , by increasing subsistence , they encourage marriage . Such laws likewise strengthen a country doubly , by increasing its own people , and diminishing its neighbours . 17 ...
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... respect more the property of private persons under conquest , and be content with acquired dominion . Why should not this law of na- tions go on improving ? Ages have intervened be- tween its several steps : but as knowledge of late ...
... respect more the property of private persons under conquest , and be content with acquired dominion . Why should not this law of na- tions go on improving ? Ages have intervened be- tween its several steps : but as knowledge of late ...
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... respect to raising money in the colonies . It was well known that the colonists universally were of opinion , that no money could be levied from English subjects but by their own consent , given by themselves or their chosen ...
... respect to raising money in the colonies . It was well known that the colonists universally were of opinion , that no money could be levied from English subjects but by their own consent , given by themselves or their chosen ...
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... respect and love for this coun- try , they had long borne , and seemed almost willing to forget . They reflected how lightly the interest of all America had been estimated here , when the inte- rests of a few of the inhabitants of Great ...
... respect and love for this coun- try , they had long borne , and seemed almost willing to forget . They reflected how lightly the interest of all America had been estimated here , when the inte- rests of a few of the inhabitants of Great ...
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... respect and love ; so that we could at any time freely have spent our lives and little fortunes in its cause : but this unhappy new system of politics tends to dissolve those bands of union , and to sever us for ever . " These are the ...
... respect and love ; so that we could at any time freely have spent our lives and little fortunes in its cause : but this unhappy new system of politics tends to dissolve those bands of union , and to sever us for ever . " These are the ...
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