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... furnish foreign minifters with intelligence , and raife or ler fall the credit of the nation . This goddess flies with a huge looking - glafs in her 3 hands , hands , to dazzle the croud , and make them N ° 14 . 13 THE EXAMINER .
... furnish foreign minifters with intelligence , and raife or ler fall the credit of the nation . This goddess flies with a huge looking - glafs in her 3 hands , hands , to dazzle the croud , and make them N ° 14 . 13 THE EXAMINER .
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... minifters , moft in his confidence , may at firft have good intentions , but grow corrupted by time , by avarice , by love , by ambition , and have fairer terms offered them to gratify C 4 gratify their paffions or interefts , from one ...
... minifters , moft in his confidence , may at firft have good intentions , but grow corrupted by time , by avarice , by love , by ambition , and have fairer terms offered them to gratify C 4 gratify their paffions or interefts , from one ...
Page 50
... minifters that ever ferved a prince , without any manner of reafon but her royal pleafure , and brought in others , of a character di- rectly contrary ? And how fo vile an opinion as this , can confift with the leaft pretence to loyalty ...
... minifters that ever ferved a prince , without any manner of reafon but her royal pleafure , and brought in others , of a character di- rectly contrary ? And how fo vile an opinion as this , can confift with the leaft pretence to loyalty ...
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... minifters , who are never fo likely to be ill chofen as when approved by them . It would be endless to fhew how pernicious all fteps of this nature have been in many parts and ages of the world . I fhall only produce two at prefent ...
... minifters , who are never fo likely to be ill chofen as when approved by them . It would be endless to fhew how pernicious all fteps of this nature have been in many parts and ages of the world . I fhall only produce two at prefent ...
Page 68
... minifters and parliaments , whether new or old . I am only forry , fuch an accident has happened towards the close of a war ; when it is chiefly the intereft of thofe gentlemen , who have posts in the army , to behave themfelves in fuch ...
... minifters and parliaments , whether new or old . I am only forry , fuch an accident has happened towards the close of a war ; when it is chiefly the intereft of thofe gentlemen , who have posts in the army , to behave themfelves in fuch ...
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