An Estimate of the Comparative Strength of Great-Britain, During the Present and Four Preceding Reigns: And of the Losses of Her Trade from Every War Since the Revolution |
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... cal , you produce affertions . You may explain the caufe of this diverfity of practice in your next pamphlet . You give a striking example of your own prac- 2 2 tice , tice , in the fecond page of your letter : THE DEDICATION . iii-
... cal , you produce affertions . You may explain the caufe of this diverfity of practice in your next pamphlet . You give a striking example of your own prac- 2 2 tice , tice , in the fecond page of your letter : THE DEDICATION . iii-
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... caufe of the univerfal wreck of credit . The war came : and fast on its heels a dreadful train of evils - bankruptcy followed bankruptcy , in rapid fucceffion † . You controvert the opinion of those , who faid , that those evils had no ...
... caufe of the univerfal wreck of credit . The war came : and fast on its heels a dreadful train of evils - bankruptcy followed bankruptcy , in rapid fucceffion † . You controvert the opinion of those , who faid , that those evils had no ...
Page liii
... caufe of our commercial distress , to be true , what you had an opportunity of knowing to be falfe , that our customers did not pur- chafe * : yet , our customers never purchased fo many goods as in the three years , preceding our ...
... caufe of our commercial distress , to be true , what you had an opportunity of knowing to be falfe , that our customers did not pur- chafe * : yet , our customers never purchased fo many goods as in the three years , preceding our ...
Page lvi
... caufe two bankrupt cies , in Holland . * When you have supposed , what my inquiries contradict , that the invasion of Du- mourier had overturned our commercial houses , you add † , with more felicity , than fact , " A fimilar " effect ...
... caufe two bankrupt cies , in Holland . * When you have supposed , what my inquiries contradict , that the invasion of Du- mourier had overturned our commercial houses , you add † , with more felicity , than fact , " A fimilar " effect ...
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... caufe him to ftop . And , thefe reafonings , were confirmed by experience , during our late diftreffes , in proportion as traders were more , or lefs , connected , with the cir- culators of Thefe obfervations equally ap- paper . ply to ...
... caufe him to ftop . And , thefe reafonings , were confirmed by experience , during our late diftreffes , in proportion as traders were more , or lefs , connected , with the cir- culators of Thefe obfervations equally ap- paper . ply to ...
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