The Complete Works, in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Now First Collected and Arranged: with Memoirs of His Early Life, Written by Himself ; in Three Volumes, Volume 3J. Johnson, and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1806 - 552 pages |
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... able to oppose and ob- struct the measures necessary for the general good , than where they are swallowed up in the general union . 4. The Indian trade would be better regulated by the union of the whole than by partial unions . And as ...
... able to oppose and ob- struct the measures necessary for the general good , than where they are swallowed up in the general union . 4. The Indian trade would be better regulated by the union of the whole than by partial unions . And as ...
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... able to cope with the French , without other assistance ; several of the colonies having alone , in former wars , withstood the whole power of the enemy , unassisted not only by the mother - country , but by any of the neighbouring ...
... able to cope with the French , without other assistance ; several of the colonies having alone , in former wars , withstood the whole power of the enemy , unassisted not only by the mother - country , but by any of the neighbouring ...
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... able to the people , than the method lately attempted to be introduced by royal instruction ; as well as more agreeable to the nature of an English constitution , and to English liberty ; and that such laws , as now seem to bear hard on ...
... able to the people , than the method lately attempted to be introduced by royal instruction ; as well as more agreeable to the nature of an English constitution , and to English liberty ; and that such laws , as now seem to bear hard on ...
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... able to outsettle the French ; and have driven the Indians out of the country more by settling than fighting ; and that whenever our settlements have been wisely and completely made , the French , neither by themselves nor their dogs of ...
... able to outsettle the French ; and have driven the Indians out of the country more by settling than fighting ; and that whenever our settlements have been wisely and completely made , the French , neither by themselves nor their dogs of ...
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... able advocate . His sentiments are manly , liberal , and spirited ; his style close , nervous , and rhetorical . By a forcible display of the oppressions his clients have sustained , he inclines us to pity their condition ; by an ...
... able advocate . His sentiments are manly , liberal , and spirited ; his style close , nervous , and rhetorical . By a forcible display of the oppressions his clients have sustained , he inclines us to pity their condition ; by an ...
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