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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... Americans would have defended themfelves without our help - the parliament would not fuffer . them - Doctor Franklin's letter to Governor Shirley , WAR , though of all things the most destructive to the human fpecies , and contrary to ...
... Americans would have defended themfelves without our help - the parliament would not fuffer . them - Doctor Franklin's letter to Governor Shirley , WAR , though of all things the most destructive to the human fpecies , and contrary to ...
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... 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 colonies ...
... 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 colonies ...
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... America , on paying Bri- tifh duties : an act for granting a bounty upon the importation of hemp , and rough and undreffed flax , from the American colonies into Great Britain ; and another to encourage the whale fishery on their coafts ...
... America , on paying Bri- tifh duties : an act for granting a bounty upon the importation of hemp , and rough and undreffed flax , from the American colonies into Great Britain ; and another to encourage the whale fishery on their coafts ...
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... America had been intended merely for paying the troops quartered there , there was no occafion to fend it to the British exchequer tó risk the danger of feas in fending it back again to America . This would have been a piece of meer ...
... America had been intended merely for paying the troops quartered there , there was no occafion to fend it to the British exchequer tó risk the danger of feas in fending it back again to America . This would have been a piece of meer ...
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