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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... parliament , it permits litigious informations and law fuits , where the perfons whofe property has been unjustly feized , have no damages , provided the court fhall determine that there was a probability of the charge brought against ...
... parliament , it permits litigious informations and law fuits , where the perfons whofe property has been unjustly feized , have no damages , provided the court fhall determine that there was a probability of the charge brought against ...
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... parliament might have eafily foreseen these confe- quences , had they not been infatuated with the ideas of revenue , and exafperated by fome late irritating events . The majority in the houfe of commons , but especially the ministry ...
... parliament might have eafily foreseen these confe- quences , had they not been infatuated with the ideas of revenue , and exafperated by fome late irritating events . The majority in the houfe of commons , but especially the ministry ...
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... parliament of Britain confidered them not as fellow fubjects , but as inferior vaffals , not to be re- garded in the fame manner as the fubjects of the mo- ther country . A people that are reftrained from gain- ing money by trading with ...
... parliament of Britain confidered them not as fellow fubjects , but as inferior vaffals , not to be re- garded in the fame manner as the fubjects of the mo- ther country . A people that are reftrained from gain- ing money by trading with ...
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... parliament , and paffed both houses , for laying a duty upon ftamps in all the American colonies . This law impofed no less than fifty - three different forts of ftamps and other duties upon the co- lonies and plantations in America ...
... parliament , and paffed both houses , for laying a duty upon ftamps in all the American colonies . This law impofed no less than fifty - three different forts of ftamps and other duties upon the co- lonies and plantations in America ...
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... parliament , that this bill did not pass without op- pofition ; the friends of liberty , and of the conftitu- tion , the fincere lovers of the Brunswick family , op- pofed it , in all its ftages , and offered fuch arguments against it ...
... parliament , that this bill did not pass without op- pofition ; the friends of liberty , and of the conftitu- tion , the fincere lovers of the Brunswick family , op- pofed it , in all its ftages , and offered fuch arguments against it ...
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