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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... most destructive to the human fpecies , and contrary to the original dictates of nature , has in all ages of the ... most dif- agreeable things familiar , makes things difgustful at first , firft , afterwards pleafant ; and ftamps the ...
... most destructive to the human fpecies , and contrary to the original dictates of nature , has in all ages of the ... most dif- agreeable things familiar , makes things difgustful at first , firft , afterwards pleafant ; and ftamps the ...
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... 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 ; when yet this unnatural creature of fancy ...
... 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 ; when yet this unnatural creature of fancy ...
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... most part ready to fupport fuch as appear to be on their fide . The government , fince the conclufion of the peace , had been cafting about and projecting several schemes , for raising a revenue to fupport the credit of the mother ...
... most part ready to fupport fuch as appear to be on their fide . The government , fince the conclufion of the peace , had been cafting about and projecting several schemes , for raising a revenue to fupport the credit of the mother ...
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... most infamous traf- fic . It is no uncommon thing to fee a British member of parliament have his Niger fave following him , which plainly fhews that this practice , is not peculiar to America . The first fettlers who went to America ...
... most infamous traf- fic . It is no uncommon thing to fee a British member of parliament have his Niger fave following him , which plainly fhews that this practice , is not peculiar to America . The first fettlers who went to America ...
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... most tenacious of their liberty , and jealous to the laft degree of every appearance of def- potifm . This colony confidered itself as the offspring of progenitors , who had fuffered both feverely and unjustly at the hands of the mother ...
... most tenacious of their liberty , and jealous to the laft degree of every appearance of def- potifm . This colony confidered itself as the offspring of progenitors , who had fuffered both feverely and unjustly at the hands of the mother ...
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