London Magazine: Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer..., Volume 37C. Ackers, 1768 - English essays |
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... reafon , fufficient to warrant , or excufe the commiffion of grofs abfurdities , and ir . regularities , and manifeft violations of the most facred laws of God and na- ture ? -The dangerous confequences of fuch tenets , and the fallacy ...
... reafon , fufficient to warrant , or excufe the commiffion of grofs abfurdities , and ir . regularities , and manifeft violations of the most facred laws of God and na- ture ? -The dangerous confequences of fuch tenets , and the fallacy ...
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... reafon for their buying nothing of us them- felves , yet it could be none for their thus exciting all the other colonies not to deal with us . Should the gentlemen of Virginia , for inftance , take the ad- vice of thefe Boftonmen ...
... reafon for their buying nothing of us them- felves , yet it could be none for their thus exciting all the other colonies not to deal with us . Should the gentlemen of Virginia , for inftance , take the ad- vice of thefe Boftonmen ...
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... reafon if the prices of our corn be not kept up at a much higher rate than 308. for wheat , and 16 s . for barley per quarter , no man in his right fenfes would en- gage to pay fo high a rent for a farm confifting moftly of arable lands ...
... reafon if the prices of our corn be not kept up at a much higher rate than 308. for wheat , and 16 s . for barley per quarter , no man in his right fenfes would en- gage to pay fo high a rent for a farm confifting moftly of arable lands ...
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... reafon as before . And , to prevent as much as poffible an in- creafe of expence , it was alfo intended that the clerks of the board of trade hould likewife be the clerks of the new fecretary , and that the lords of trade should be a ...
... reafon as before . And , to prevent as much as poffible an in- creafe of expence , it was alfo intended that the clerks of the board of trade hould likewife be the clerks of the new fecretary , and that the lords of trade should be a ...
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... that being , who , with the molt ridiculous vanity , prefers himself to other animals , and dares infolently fay , " I have reafon for my guide . " Why , thou monster ! thou odious com- pound lax fibres , on the 18th of May , 1762.
... that being , who , with the molt ridiculous vanity , prefers himself to other animals , and dares infolently fay , " I have reafon for my guide . " Why , thou monster ! thou odious com- pound lax fibres , on the 18th of May , 1762.
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