The Letters of Junius, Volume 1J. Wheble, 1772 |
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... spirit of those articles were religiously adhered to , we should not fee fuch a multitude of Scotch commoners in the lower house , as reprefentatives of English boroughs , while not a single Scotch borough is ever re prefented by an ...
... spirit of those articles were religiously adhered to , we should not fee fuch a multitude of Scotch commoners in the lower house , as reprefentatives of English boroughs , while not a single Scotch borough is ever re prefented by an ...
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... spirit of the constitution , deserves to be confidered . A mistake in this matter proved fatal to Charles and his fon . - For my own part , far from thinking that the King can do no wrong , far from suffering myself to be deterred or ...
... spirit of the constitution , deserves to be confidered . A mistake in this matter proved fatal to Charles and his fon . - For my own part , far from thinking that the King can do no wrong , far from suffering myself to be deterred or ...
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... spirit . It may be faid perhaps , that it is his Grace's province , as furely it is his paffion , rather to diftribute than to fave the public money , and that while Lord North is Chancellor of the Exchequer , the First Lord of the ...
... spirit . It may be faid perhaps , that it is his Grace's province , as furely it is his paffion , rather to diftribute than to fave the public money , and that while Lord North is Chancellor of the Exchequer , the First Lord of the ...
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... spirit of refentment , which might reach beyond the facrifice of a minifter . As to the debt upon the civil lift , the people of England expect that it will not be paid with- out a strict enquiry how it was incurred . If it must be paid ...
... spirit of refentment , which might reach beyond the facrifice of a minifter . As to the debt upon the civil lift , the people of England expect that it will not be paid with- out a strict enquiry how it was incurred . If it must be paid ...
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... spirit and argument to the colonies , and while perhaps they meant no more than a ruin of a minister , they in effect divided one half of the empire from the other . UNDER one adminiftration the stamp act is made ; under the fecond it ...
... spirit and argument to the colonies , and while perhaps they meant no more than a ruin of a minister , they in effect divided one half of the empire from the other . UNDER one adminiftration the stamp act is made ; under the fecond it ...
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