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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... first inftitution of govern- ment , that have had all the fatisfaction they could have defired : Mif- understandings and mismanagements , in high and low , are common in the prefent ftate of human nature . It requires a more exalted ...
... first inftitution of govern- ment , that have had all the fatisfaction they could have defired : Mif- understandings and mismanagements , in high and low , are common in the prefent ftate of human nature . It requires a more exalted ...
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... 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 this time that the American colonies began to feel ...
... 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 this time that the American colonies began to feel ...
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... first time , be- fore it was read a fecond time , a petition was offered to the Commons by Edward Montague , agent for the province of Virginia , praying to take their unhappy circumftances into confideration ; and that their house of ...
... first time , be- fore it was read a fecond time , a petition was offered to the Commons by Edward Montague , agent for the province of Virginia , praying to take their unhappy circumftances into confideration ; and that their house of ...
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... first fettlers who went to America , knew nothing of this bufinefs . It began in fome other place where it does not difqualify men from being re- prefented . The miniftry at this time , whatever their intentions were , acted very ...
... first fettlers who went to America , knew nothing of this bufinefs . It began in fome other place where it does not difqualify men from being re- prefented . The miniftry at this time , whatever their intentions were , acted very ...
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... first colonists fucceeded in their undertakings without any expence or charge to the ftate , which was acknow- ledged by a vote of the houfe of commons as early as 1642 ; and it was not to be expected that their chil dren were tamely to ...
... first colonists fucceeded in their undertakings without any expence or charge to the ftate , which was acknow- ledged by a vote of the houfe of commons as early as 1642 ; and it was not to be expected that their chil dren were tamely to ...
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