An Impartial History of the Present War in America: Containing an Account of Its Rise and Progress, the Political Springs Thereof, with Its Various Successes and Disappointments, on Both Sides. By the Rev. James Murray, ...T. Robson, Head of the Groat-Market, R. Baldwin, No. 47, Pater-noster-Row, London, N. Frobisher, York, C. Elliot, Edinburgh, and Dunlop and Wilson, Glasgow, 1780 - United States - 575 pages |
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... should know no party , but record truth . Adulation and flattery , as well as rancor and prejudice , are inconfiftent with the character of an honest historian . The author prefumes that your Majesty will meet with none of these in this ...
... should know no party , but record truth . Adulation and flattery , as well as rancor and prejudice , are inconfiftent with the character of an honest historian . The author prefumes that your Majesty will meet with none of these in this ...
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... should have at this time fo far forfaken them , as to prefer a law , so abfurd in its Gwn nature , and ruinous in its confequences ; which every one by paying the fmalleft attention to the fub- ject , might have easily discerned to be a ...
... should have at this time fo far forfaken them , as to prefer a law , so abfurd in its Gwn nature , and ruinous in its confequences ; which every one by paying the fmalleft attention to the fub- ject , might have easily discerned to be a ...
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... should not be heard . The bill , after going through all its stages and forms , was at laft paffed , and received the royal fanc- tion . It fheet . ( 23 ) Probates , letters of administration or guardianship , in other parts of America ...
... should not be heard . The bill , after going through all its stages and forms , was at laft paffed , and received the royal fanc- tion . It fheet . ( 23 ) Probates , letters of administration or guardianship , in other parts of America ...
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... should claim a right to make laws to the Americans , because they are unfit to make laws to themselves , for want of feelings of humanity ; and that this entitles Britain to an abfolute right of empire over the colonies . If this ...
... should claim a right to make laws to the Americans , because they are unfit to make laws to themselves , for want of feelings of humanity ; and that this entitles Britain to an abfolute right of empire over the colonies . If this ...
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... should be the confequence , and to recal the orders they had already given , if not executed be- fore the 1st of January , 1766 ; and they refolved fur- ther , not even to difpofe of any British goods fent them upon commiffion , that ...
... should be the confequence , and to recal the orders they had already given , if not executed be- fore the 1st of January , 1766 ; and they refolved fur- ther , not even to difpofe of any British goods fent them upon commiffion , that ...
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