The Political Writings of John Dickinson, Esquire: Late President of the State of Delaware, and of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Том 2Bonsal and Niles, 1801 |
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... continued to this day , it has been , with universal pleasure , and an unanimous vote , resolved , that we should consider the violation of your rights , by the act for altering the govern- ment of your province , as a violation of our ...
... continued to this day , it has been , with universal pleasure , and an unanimous vote , resolved , that we should consider the violation of your rights , by the act for altering the govern- ment of your province , as a violation of our ...
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... continued , to raise both to a height insupportable to the rest of Europe . In short , their own best informed statesmen and writers confess , that your cause is exceedingly fa- voured by courts and people in that quarter of the world ...
... continued , to raise both to a height insupportable to the rest of Europe . In short , their own best informed statesmen and writers confess , that your cause is exceedingly fa- voured by courts and people in that quarter of the world ...
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... continued faith- ful to the union , they prospered . Their affairs were shattered by dissensions , emulations , and civil wars , artfully and diligently fomented by princes who thought it their interest ; and in the case of the Achæan ...
... continued faith- ful to the union , they prospered . Their affairs were shattered by dissensions , emulations , and civil wars , artfully and diligently fomented by princes who thought it their interest ; and in the case of the Achæan ...
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... continued the war for these re- mote boundaries , this sweeping circuit , within whose flowing line scarcely a trace was sketched of that beautiful picture which is to fill it , if we have sufficient skill ? We would . Is France then ...
... continued the war for these re- mote boundaries , this sweeping circuit , within whose flowing line scarcely a trace was sketched of that beautiful picture which is to fill it , if we have sufficient skill ? We would . Is France then ...
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... continued to the peace of Muntser , near the middle of it , for controuling the power of the house of Austria ; and these alliances were crowned with success . I have also in my re- collection , the alliances formed afterwards in that ...
... continued to the peace of Muntser , near the middle of it , for controuling the power of the house of Austria ; and these alliances were crowned with success . I have also in my re- collection , the alliances formed afterwards in that ...
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