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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... trade of that country ; the mini- fters began to imagine that there was an inexhauftible fund of riches and wealth in the colonies , to answer their prefent purpofe , as well as to be adequate for future emergencies . Without examining ...
... trade of that country ; the mini- fters began to imagine that there was an inexhauftible fund of riches and wealth in the colonies , to answer their prefent purpofe , as well as to be adequate for future emergencies . Without examining ...
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... trade , which had been formerly winked at , though not ftrictly agreeable to the laws of trade and navigation , was of great advantage to both the colo- nies and the mother country . Thofe articles which would have been as lumber upon ...
... trade , which had been formerly winked at , though not ftrictly agreeable to the laws of trade and navigation , was of great advantage to both the colo- nies and the mother country . Thofe articles which would have been as lumber upon ...
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... trade was a real benefit to all the three parties concerned . In the time of war it had been carried on by flags of truce between Great Britain and France , as a public benefit to both , till the French Weft - India islands being fhut ...
... trade was a real benefit to all the three parties concerned . In the time of war it had been carried on by flags of truce between Great Britain and France , as a public benefit to both , till the French Weft - India islands being fhut ...
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... trade might have been ruined before redrefs could have been obtained . This was a grievance which the American fubje & s felt feverely , and was likely to produce no favourable -ideas in their minds concerning the British legislature ...
... trade might have been ruined before redrefs could have been obtained . This was a grievance which the American fubje & s felt feverely , and was likely to produce no favourable -ideas in their minds concerning the British legislature ...
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... trade of America ; and it had more the ap pearance of an act of political fury , than the marks of judicious legiflation . It could anfwer no other purposes than to affert the dominion of parliament over America , and to irritate the ...
... trade of America ; and it had more the ap pearance of an act of political fury , than the marks of judicious legiflation . It could anfwer no other purposes than to affert the dominion of parliament over America , and to irritate the ...
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