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... means the trueft lights have been re- ceived ; great benefits have been already derived to manufactures and commerce ; and the moft exten- five profpects are opened for further improvement . Under them , the interefts of our northern ...
... means the trueft lights have been re- ceived ; great benefits have been already derived to manufactures and commerce ; and the moft exten- five profpects are opened for further improvement . Under them , the interefts of our northern ...
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... mean feriously to fet about the refutation of these uningenious paradoxes and reveries without ima- gination . I state them only that we may discern a little in the questions of war and peace , the moft weighty of all queftions , what ...
... mean feriously to fet about the refutation of these uningenious paradoxes and reveries without ima- gination . I state them only that we may discern a little in the questions of war and peace , the moft weighty of all queftions , what ...
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... means to confine himself to her colonies in the Weft Indies . But furely it will fare as ill with him there as in North America , whilft we remember that in our firft at- tempt at Martinico we were actually defeated ; that it was three ...
... means to confine himself to her colonies in the Weft Indies . But furely it will fare as ill with him there as in North America , whilft we remember that in our firft at- tempt at Martinico we were actually defeated ; that it was three ...
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... means no more than that our navigation had fo declined as to alarm us with the probable lofs of this valu- able object . I fhall however fhew , that his whole propofition , whatever modifications he may please to give it , is without ...
... means no more than that our navigation had fo declined as to alarm us with the probable lofs of this valu- able object . I fhall however fhew , that his whole propofition , whatever modifications he may please to give it , is without ...
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... means to compare with the prefent . As I am ob- liged to force him to that precifion , from which he always flies as from his moft dangerous enemy , I have been at the trouble to fearch the Journals in the period between the two laft ...
... means to compare with the prefent . As I am ob- liged to force him to that precifion , from which he always flies as from his moft dangerous enemy , I have been at the trouble to fearch the Journals in the period between the two laft ...
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Página 333 - Party is a body of men united, for promoting, by their joint endeavours, the national interest, upon some particular principle, in which they are all agreed.
Página 286 - ... of the people, as this would indicate some consanguinity, some sympathy of nature with their constituents, than that they should in all cases be wholly untouched by the opinions and feelings of the people out of doors.
Página 418 - ... patriots and courtiers, king's friends and republicans, whigs and tories, treacherous friends and open enemies, — that it was indeed a very curious show, but utterly unsafe to touch, and unsure to stand on.
Página 388 - But it may be truly said, that men too much conversant in office are rarely minds of remarkable enlargement. Their habits of office are apt to give them a turn to think the substance of business not to be much more important than the forms in which it is conducted.
Página 433 - I look, I say, on the imperial rights of Great Britain, and the privileges which the colonists ought to enjoy under these rights, to be just the most reconcilable things in the world.
Página 422 - But he had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause ; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame ; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Página 433 - Reflect how you are to govern a people, who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue ; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience...
Página 397 - ... and at the head of the treasury department. It was indeed in a situation of little rank and no consequence, suitable to the mediocrity of my talents and pretensions. But a situation near enough to enable me to see, as well as others, what was going on ; and I did see in...
Página 334 - Therefore every honourable connexion will avow It is their first purpose, to pursue every just method to put the men who hold their opinions into such a condition as may enable them to carry their common plans into execution, with all the power and authority of the state.
Página 363 - Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? No! but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave. It is the weight of that preamble of which you are so fond, and not the weight of the duty, that the Americans are unable and unwilling to bear.