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" The commencement of this pernicious practice deserves to be noted ; a practice the more likely to become pernicious, the more a nation advances in opulence and credit. The ruinous effects of it are now become apparent, and threaten the very existence... "
An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Britain during the Present and ... - Page 124
by George Chalmers - 1794 - 254 pages
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An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Great Britain, During the Present ...

George Chalmers - Great Britain - 1794 - 468 pages
...accumulation of private wealth, Hume talked, in his hiftory, of the pernicious praRice of borrowing tn parliamentary Jecurity ; a practice, fays he, the...credit, and now threatens the * The account of the Poft -office revenue is ftatcd, by the Annual Regifter 1773, much higher, mhtakingly.. • very •very...
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A New History of Great Britain: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the ...

John Adams - Great Britain - 1803 - 486 pages
...parliamentary fecurity. The commencement of this pernicious practice deferves to be noted, as it is more likely to become pernicious, the more a nation advances in opulence and credit. The ruinous effefts of it are now become too apparent, and threaten the very exiftence of the nation....
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The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar to the ..., Volume 3

David Hume - Great Britain - 1807 - 482 pages
...occurs in this reign.* The commencement of this pernicious practice deserves to be noted ; a practice the more likely to become pernicious, the more a nation advances in opulence and credit. The ruinous effects of it are now become but too apparent, and threaten the very existence of the nation....
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The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Cæsar, to the ..., Volume 3

David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 514 pages
...occurs in this reign. 3 The commencement of this pernicious practice deserves to be noted; a practice the more likely to become pernicious, the more a nation advances in opulence and credit. The ruinous effects ef it are now become but too apparent, and threaten the very existence of the nation....
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An Historical View of the Domestic Economy of G. Britain, and Ireland, from ...

George Chalmers - Great Britain - 1812 - 534 pages
...in his history, of the pernicious practice of borrowing on parliamentary security ; a practice, says 'he, the more likely to become pernicious, the more...advances, in opulence, and credit ; and now threatens tlm very existence of the nation. Even the grave Blackstone, who seems to have been infected, by the...
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The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the ..., Volume 3

David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 418 pages
...occurs in this reign51. The commencement of this pernicious practice deserves to be noted ; a practice the more likely to become pernicious, the more a nation advances in opulence and credit. The ruinous effects of it are now become but too apparent, and threaten the very existence of the nation....
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On the practicability of an invasion of British India; and on the commercial ...

sir George de Lacy Evans - 1829 - 242 pages
...the reign of Henry VI. The commencement of this pernicious practice deserves to be noted ; a practice the more likely to become pernicious the more a nation advances in opulence (!) and credit. The ruinous effects of it are now become apparent, and threaten the very existence of the tuition."...
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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York, Volume 1

New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1831 - 502 pages
...security, occurs in this reign. The commencement of this practice deserves to be noted ; a practice the more likely to become pernicious, the more a nation advances in opulence and credit. The ruinous effects of it are now become too apparent, and threaten the very existence of the nation."...
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Documents of the Senate of the State of New York, Issues 1-78

New York (State). Legislature. Senate - New York (State) - 1831 - 758 pages
...iccurity, occurs in this reign. The commencement of this practice deserves to be noted ; a practice the more likely to become pernicious, the more a nation advances in opulence and credit. The ruinous effects of it are now become too apparent, and threaten the very existence of the nation."...
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Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, Volume 9

Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1841 - 504 pages
...VI. The commencement, he continues, " of this pernicious practice deserves to be noted ; a practice the more likely to become pernicious, the more a nation advances in opulence and credit. The ruinous effects of it are now become apparent, and threaten the very erifttnce of the nation."...
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