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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... last issued in a civil war and the revolt of thirteen 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 ...
... last issued in a civil war and the revolt of thirteen 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 ...
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... last reafon of restraint had no exist- ence after the peace was concluded , and ought there- fore to have been taken off inftead of receiving fresh parliamentary confirmation . Unreasonable as this law may appear to be , the method of ...
... last reafon of restraint had no exist- ence after the peace was concluded , and ought there- fore to have been taken off inftead of receiving fresh parliamentary confirmation . Unreasonable as this law may appear to be , the method of ...
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... last century , and where in many ref- pects formed upon the principles of their ancestors , were not to be managed in the fame manner as people rendered foft and effeminate , by importing the luxuries and vices of all nations under the ...
... last century , and where in many ref- pects formed upon the principles of their ancestors , were not to be managed in the fame manner as people rendered foft and effeminate , by importing the luxuries and vices of all nations under the ...
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... last will of the owner , and chargeable with all the debts of the deceafed proprietor . And left any doubt fhould arife about the propriety of thefe decrees in equity , equalizing a foreign plantation to a perfonal eftate , there was a ...
... last will of the owner , and chargeable with all the debts of the deceafed proprietor . And left any doubt fhould arife about the propriety of thefe decrees in equity , equalizing a foreign plantation to a perfonal eftate , there was a ...
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... last war , 1,755,000l . had been already paid in the courfe of only three years , that the far greater part of their remaining burden , amounting to 760,000l . would be discharged in two years more . Other jar- guments were used ; the ...
... last war , 1,755,000l . had been already paid in the courfe of only three years , that the far greater part of their remaining burden , amounting to 760,000l . would be discharged in two years more . Other jar- guments were used ; the ...
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