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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... firft of Auguft , when Popery and arbitrary power were so effectually baffled . The warm expreffions of heart - felt joy , which your fubjects loudly manifefted at your acceflion to the crown of Great Britain , could not but declare to ...
... firft of Auguft , when Popery and arbitrary power were so effectually baffled . The warm expreffions of heart - felt joy , which your fubjects loudly manifefted at your acceflion to the crown of Great Britain , could not but declare to ...
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... comparison of the hiftory of the wars of Greece and Rome . It is cuftom that renders the most dif- agreeable things familiar , makes things difgustful at first , firft , afterwards pleafant ; and ftamps the most aban- BO O K ...
... comparison of the hiftory of the wars of Greece and Rome . It is cuftom that renders the most dif- agreeable things familiar , makes things difgustful at first , firft , afterwards pleafant ; and ftamps the most aban- BO O K ...
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... firft , afterwards pleafant ; and ftamps the most aban- doned of all actions with the epithet of glory . The glory of war is a creature of the imagination ; often formed by caprice , nurfed by policy , and manumitted by public authority ...
... firft , afterwards pleafant ; and ftamps the most aban- doned of all actions with the epithet of glory . The glory of war is a creature of the imagination ; often formed by caprice , nurfed by policy , and manumitted by public authority ...
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... firft inftance , that the Ame- ricans were either not judges of their own affairs , or that they had no juft or legal right to judge of , or in- terfere with , their own trade . A more abject and fer- vile fituation can fcarcely well be ...
... firft inftance , that the Ame- ricans were either not judges of their own affairs , or that they had no juft or legal right to judge of , or in- terfere with , their own trade . A more abject and fer- vile fituation can fcarcely well be ...
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... firft to diftrefs the colonies in collecting a revenue , to fhew the power of the British parliament , and then to order the money to be paid to the troops refiding among them . It would have been more eafy to have given orders to their ...
... firft to diftrefs the colonies in collecting a revenue , to fhew the power of the British parliament , and then to order the money to be paid to the troops refiding among them . It would have been more eafy to have given orders to their ...
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