The Political Works of Thomas Paine ...D.M. Bennett, 1878 - Political science |
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... reason for pro- secuting the most expensive war that England ever knew . Sore with the event , and groaning beneath a galling yoke of taxes , she has again been led ministerially on to the shore of the same delu- sive and fatal river ...
... reason for pro- secuting the most expensive war that England ever knew . Sore with the event , and groaning beneath a galling yoke of taxes , she has again been led ministerially on to the shore of the same delu- sive and fatal river ...
Page 12
... reasons to render them abortive . And if half the money which nations lavish on specu- lative alliances were reserved for their own immediate purposes , whenever the occasion shall arrive , it would be more productively and ...
... reasons to render them abortive . And if half the money which nations lavish on specu- lative alliances were reserved for their own immediate purposes , whenever the occasion shall arrive , it would be more productively and ...
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... reasons for commencing a war , without knowing any thing of either of these subjects . But admitting them to be as ... reason for making war upon them . The amazing increase and magnitude of the paper currency now floating in all parts ...
... reasons for commencing a war , without knowing any thing of either of these subjects . But admitting them to be as ... reason for making war upon them . The amazing increase and magnitude of the paper currency now floating in all parts ...
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... inju- dicious rupture But in the best state which manufactures can be in , they are very unstable sources of national wealth . The reasons are , that they seldom continue long in one state . The market 26 PROSPECTS ON THE RUBICON .
... inju- dicious rupture But in the best state which manufactures can be in , they are very unstable sources of national wealth . The reasons are , that they seldom continue long in one state . The market 26 PROSPECTS ON THE RUBICON .
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... reason for laying new taxes on England , and running into the risk and expense of a war , and great was the surprise when the declaration and counter declaration , like twin mice , peeped from the cabinet . But there is one secret that ...
... reason for laying new taxes on England , and running into the risk and expense of a war , and great was the surprise when the declaration and counter declaration , like twin mice , peeped from the cabinet . But there is one secret that ...
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