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... length , in one of the British Reviews , from a discourse of Dr. Foster's . This detection gave many of our party disgust , who accordingly abandoned his cause , and occasion'd our more speedy discomfiture in the synod . I stuck by him ...
... length , in one of the British Reviews , from a discourse of Dr. Foster's . This detection gave many of our party disgust , who accordingly abandoned his cause , and occasion'd our more speedy discomfiture in the synod . I stuck by him ...
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... length join'd by France , which brought us into great danger ; and the laboured and long - continued endeavour of our governor , Thomas , to prevail with our Quaker Assembly to pass a militia law , and make other provisions for the ...
... length join'd by France , which brought us into great danger ; and the laboured and long - continued endeavour of our governor , Thomas , to prevail with our Quaker Assembly to pass a militia law , and make other provisions for the ...
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... length he very good- naturedly conceded eighteen . They were fine cannon , eighteen- pounders , with their carriages , which we soon transported and mounted on our battery , where the associators kept a nightly guard while the war ...
... length he very good- naturedly conceded eighteen . They were fine cannon , eighteen- pounders , with their carriages , which we soon transported and mounted on our battery , where the associators kept a nightly guard while the war ...
Contents
DOGOOD PAPERS | 184 |
PREFACE TO POOR RICHARDS ALMANACK 1733 | 198 |
PREFACE TO POOR RICHARDS ALMANACK 1758 | 205 |
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