The Dangers of the CountrySamuel F. Bradford, 1807 - 142 páginas |
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... increase of parochial contributions , those great drawbacks on the national resources . But if our funds could possibly survive the loss of commerce and manufactures , their vitality would certainly not be proof against the grasp of a ...
... increase of parochial contributions , those great drawbacks on the national resources . But if our funds could possibly survive the loss of commerce and manufactures , their vitality would certainly not be proof against the grasp of a ...
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... increase , and when this creature of society , acquires in his eyes its highest interest and value . Such is the case with the father and the husband , when , in the contemplation of death , he sits . down to exercise the power and the ...
... increase , and when this creature of society , acquires in his eyes its highest interest and value . Such is the case with the father and the husband , when , in the contemplation of death , he sits . down to exercise the power and the ...
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... increase of poor rates , the effect of general ruin , would sink the landholder's net reve- nue , out of which the interest of incumbrances must be paid , still more perhaps than the value of his capital . " And here we may perceive a ...
... increase of poor rates , the effect of general ruin , would sink the landholder's net reve- nue , out of which the interest of incumbrances must be paid , still more perhaps than the value of his capital . " And here we may perceive a ...
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... increase his marine , nor send his fleets out of port , nor prepare seamen to man them hereafter , the true spirit of the uti possidetis might apply to the present new and extraordinary case ; in which , as Napoleon himself admits , the ...
... increase his marine , nor send his fleets out of port , nor prepare seamen to man them hereafter , the true spirit of the uti possidetis might apply to the present new and extraordinary case ; in which , as Napoleon himself admits , the ...
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... increase those fatal drains which exhaust our defensive energies . What can a man who wishes to conquer England , desire better , than to give her new colonies to garrison , in the sickly swamps of Guiana ; and new civil and military ...
... increase those fatal drains which exhaust our defensive energies . What can a man who wishes to conquer England , desire better , than to give her new colonies to garrison , in the sickly swamps of Guiana ; and new civil and military ...
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Página 114 - ... the children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.
Página 114 - Thus saith the LORD, Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence to the stranger, the fatherless, nor the widow, neither shed innocent blood in this place.
Página 113 - Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
Página 128 - Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore : let them go and gather straw for themselves.