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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... fame manner as people rendered foft and effeminate , by importing the luxuries and vices of all nations under the fun . The mi- niftry were unfortunate in the beginning of this scheme , and unfuccefsful in the conclufion of it . The ...
... fame manner as people rendered foft and effeminate , by importing the luxuries and vices of all nations under the fun . The mi- niftry were unfortunate in the beginning of this scheme , and unfuccefsful in the conclufion of it . The ...
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... fame manner , and with the like feverity . Mr Hutchinfon who was fufpected , and ac- cording to the best accounts , not without reafon , of mifrepresenting the colonies in his letters to govern- ment , was feverely ufed . The people ...
... fame manner , and with the like feverity . Mr Hutchinfon who was fufpected , and ac- cording to the best accounts , not without reafon , of mifrepresenting the colonies in his letters to govern- ment , was feverely ufed . The people ...
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... fame fituation , they would have probably deter- mined otherwife . The colonists fhewed that they were determined not to fubmit to the ftamp act upon any account ; for when ships which came from thefe colonies that had fubmitted to this ...
... fame fituation , they would have probably deter- mined otherwife . The colonists fhewed that they were determined not to fubmit to the ftamp act upon any account ; for when ships which came from thefe colonies that had fubmitted to this ...
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... fame time the far greater part were wholly dif❤ fatisfied with the public measures . The evil confequences of fuch a stagnation in bufi- nefs began to be felt feverely , and would have cooled a moderate zeal for liberty , where ...
... fame time the far greater part were wholly dif❤ fatisfied with the public measures . The evil confequences of fuch a stagnation in bufi- nefs began to be felt feverely , and would have cooled a moderate zeal for liberty , where ...
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... fame time a vote in chufing members of the par- liament ; and if the frontiers in America muft bear the expence of their own defence , it feems hard to allow them no fhare in voting the money , judging of the ne ceffity of the fum , or ...
... fame time a vote in chufing members of the par- liament ; and if the frontiers in America muft bear the expence of their own defence , it feems hard to allow them no fhare in voting the money , judging of the ne ceffity of the fum , or ...
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