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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... feven years of the greatest profperity , both pub- lic , and private , which this nation had ever enjoy- ed ! In the midft of this profperity , a bank was erected , in every market - town , I was going to fay , in every village . The ...
... feven years of the greatest profperity , both pub- lic , and private , which this nation had ever enjoy- ed ! In the midft of this profperity , a bank was erected , in every market - town , I was going to fay , in every village . The ...
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... feven Weft Indiamen , which are estimated at £ 235,000 . We have moreover taken eighteen French African fhips , of the value of £ . 105,000 . We had cap- tured in all from the French , before the end of 1793 , including seventy - eight ...
... feven Weft Indiamen , which are estimated at £ 235,000 . We have moreover taken eighteen French African fhips , of the value of £ . 105,000 . We had cap- tured in all from the French , before the end of 1793 , including seventy - eight ...
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... feven hundred of his principal officers , who afterwards divided among their followers the fpoils of the vanquished , on fuch precarious tenures , as fecured the fubmiffion of the lower orders , though not their happiness . 4 The ...
... feven hundred of his principal officers , who afterwards divided among their followers the fpoils of the vanquished , on fuch precarious tenures , as fecured the fubmiffion of the lower orders , though not their happiness . 4 The ...
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... feven or eight perfons , being not numbered at " above three or four perfons in fome remote " counties . " Yet , by thus calculating 4 in- stead of 5 , in every family , which was ftill confi- dered as fynonymous with household , this ...
... feven or eight perfons , being not numbered at " above three or four perfons in fome remote " counties . " Yet , by thus calculating 4 in- stead of 5 , in every family , which was ftill confi- dered as fynonymous with household , this ...
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... feven millions : and feven millions were confidered , by fome of the moft intelligent men of that day , as the people of this kingdom at the Revolution . But , if we take the loweft number , of fix mil- lions and a half , and compare it ...
... feven millions : and feven millions were confidered , by fome of the moft intelligent men of that day , as the people of this kingdom at the Revolution . But , if we take the loweft number , of fix mil- lions and a half , and compare it ...
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