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... friends , clad in coats powdered with fleurs de lis , and triple crowns ; their girdles hung round with chains , and beads and wooden fhoes ; and your worst enemies , adorned with the enfigns of liberty , property , indulgence , modera ...
... friends , clad in coats powdered with fleurs de lis , and triple crowns ; their girdles hung round with chains , and beads and wooden fhoes ; and your worst enemies , adorned with the enfigns of liberty , property , indulgence , modera ...
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... friends . We have seen a great part of the nation's money got into the hands of those , who , by their birth , education and merit , could pretend no higher than to wear our liveries ; while others , who , by their credit , quality ...
... friends . We have seen a great part of the nation's money got into the hands of those , who , by their birth , education and merit , could pretend no higher than to wear our liveries ; while others , who , by their credit , quality ...
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... friends at a distance , hinder them from coming to a good un- derstanding ; as they certainly would , if they were fuffered to meet and debate between themselves : for let any one examine a reasonable honest man , of either fide , upon ...
... friends at a distance , hinder them from coming to a good un- derstanding ; as they certainly would , if they were fuffered to meet and debate between themselves : for let any one examine a reasonable honest man , of either fide , upon ...
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... friendship , intereft , alliance , inclina- tion , and opinion ; which cannot be affirmed of the present and the ingratitude of the nation lies in the people's joining as one man to wish , that fuch a ministry should be changed . Is it ...
... friendship , intereft , alliance , inclina- tion , and opinion ; which cannot be affirmed of the present and the ingratitude of the nation lies in the people's joining as one man to wish , that fuch a ministry should be changed . Is it ...
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... friend , that my warrants and mittimus's were never drawn up as I would have them ; that I had the misfortune to fend an honeft man to gaol , and dismiss a knave ; he would bid me no longer trust Charles and Harry , my two clerks , whom ...
... friend , that my warrants and mittimus's were never drawn up as I would have them ; that I had the misfortune to fend an honeft man to gaol , and dismiss a knave ; he would bid me no longer trust Charles and Harry , my two clerks , whom ...
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