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... strength ; though it is obtained with fo great an oppofition , and not without fuch alterations , which none , that would be esteemed friends to the conftitution , peace and profperity of Britain , could have en- deavoured to make ...
... strength ; though it is obtained with fo great an oppofition , and not without fuch alterations , which none , that would be esteemed friends to the conftitution , peace and profperity of Britain , could have en- deavoured to make ...
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... strength , which upon great emergencies has often performed great and glorious actions . WHAT can we think of their arguments , who reduced this act to its prefent ineffectual ftrength , under the falle colouring of compaf- fion , love ...
... strength , which upon great emergencies has often performed great and glorious actions . WHAT can we think of their arguments , who reduced this act to its prefent ineffectual ftrength , under the falle colouring of compaf- fion , love ...
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... strength of the bishop of Munfter ; and fpurred them on with all vigour and earnestnefs privately against England , while they were in league to fupport her against Holland . THIS war , however , foon ended in a treaty at Breda , by ...
... strength of the bishop of Munfter ; and fpurred them on with all vigour and earnestnefs privately against England , while they were in league to fupport her against Holland . THIS war , however , foon ended in a treaty at Breda , by ...
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... strength of our nation to spend itself in an endless and inef- fectual war on the continent ; by which our natural force by fea is reduced , and disabled from acting with vigour and effect , in those parts where the French are weakeft ...
... strength of our nation to spend itself in an endless and inef- fectual war on the continent ; by which our natural force by fea is reduced , and disabled from acting with vigour and effect , in those parts where the French are weakeft ...
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... strength and courage of their ancestors , and labour under the diseases contracted from the womb . There- fore this act tends to diminish the ftrength of the nation : and in confequence , to prepare us for a prey either to the force of ...
... strength and courage of their ancestors , and labour under the diseases contracted from the womb . There- fore this act tends to diminish the ftrength of the nation : and in confequence , to prepare us for a prey either to the force of ...
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Page 457 - Kefoludons which they had directed him to report to the Houfe, which he read in his Place, and afterwards delivered in at the Table, where the fame were read, and (with an Amendment to one of them) agreed unto by the Houfe, and are as follows.
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