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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... England , could only remove this grie- vance ; but confidering the distance of place , and the manner of application , the whole trade might have been ruined before redrefs could have been obtained . This was a grievance which the ...
... England , could only remove this grie- vance ; but confidering the distance of place , and the manner of application , the whole trade might have been ruined before redrefs could have been obtained . This was a grievance which the ...
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... England . In 1763 his Lordship refigned his office as first lord of the treafury , and was fucceeded by Mr Grenville ; but the contentions continued , and during this new ministry , political animofity came to a great height . It was at ...
... England . In 1763 his Lordship refigned his office as first lord of the treafury , and was fucceeded by Mr Grenville ; but the contentions continued , and during this new ministry , political animofity came to a great height . It was at ...
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... England totally difapproves . Un- lefs the Americans had loft all fenfe of right and wrong , it was impoffible but they fhould have confidered thefe acts of the legislature as unjust and oppreffive . " It has been alledged that the ...
... England totally difapproves . Un- lefs the Americans had loft all fenfe of right and wrong , it was impoffible but they fhould have confidered thefe acts of the legislature as unjust and oppreffive . " It has been alledged that the ...
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... England , and Englishmen in Ireland , fo that there were numbers of Irish noblemen and gentlemen , in both houses of par- liament , and the parliament of Britain never claimed a fight to tax the people of Ireland , in confequence of ...
... England , and Englishmen in Ireland , fo that there were numbers of Irish noblemen and gentlemen , in both houses of par- liament , and the parliament of Britain never claimed a fight to tax the people of Ireland , in confequence of ...
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... England might plead the privi- leges of their charters , to be exempted from parlia- mentary laxation . But this , of all other arguments , was the most frivolous and infignificant . The corpo- rations in England fend members to ...
... England might plead the privi- leges of their charters , to be exempted from parlia- mentary laxation . But this , of all other arguments , was the most frivolous and infignificant . The corpo- rations in England fend members to ...
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