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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... colonies , of ministe- rial defigns against their natural rights and liber- ties . It cannot be difputed that the legiflature in . Great Britan , as well as the executive power , by modern flatutes of parliament , which had all the ap ...
... colonies , of ministe- rial defigns against their natural rights and liber- ties . It cannot be difputed that the legiflature in . Great Britan , as well as the executive power , by modern flatutes of parliament , which had all the ap ...
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... colonies . As the merchants in Britain had been enriched by their traffic in Ameri- ca , and government had for many years received a large revenue from the trade of that country ; the mini- fters began to imagine that there was an ...
... colonies . As the merchants in Britain had been enriched by their traffic in Ameri- ca , and government had for many years received a large revenue from the trade of that country ; the mini- fters began to imagine that there was an ...
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... colonies against the mother country . Ever fince the ministry of Mr Pitt , the nation had been in a ftate of confufion , with re- gard to political fentiments , and the oppofition in par- liament against Lord Bute , was echoed through ...
... colonies against the mother country . Ever fince the ministry of Mr Pitt , the nation had been in a ftate of confufion , with re- gard to political fentiments , and the oppofition in par- liament against Lord Bute , was echoed through ...
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... colonies where it was levied , and that at the fame time that a law was made to restrain the increase of pa- per currency , feveral new laws were preferred to en- courage and increase the commerce of the colonies with the mother country ...
... colonies where it was levied , and that at the fame time that a law was made to restrain the increase of pa- per currency , feveral new laws were preferred to en- courage and increase the commerce of the colonies with the mother country ...
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... colonies to pay the troops quartered there for their defence . This is a mere allegation ; for if the money collected from duties in America had been intended merely for paying the troops quartered there , there was no occafion to fend ...
... colonies to pay the troops quartered there for their defence . This is a mere allegation ; for if the money collected from duties in America had been intended merely for paying the troops quartered there , there was no occafion to fend ...
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