Essays and Letters, Band 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 |
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... peace : so that we may hope the luxury of a few merchants on the coast will not be the ruin of America . One reflection more , and I will end this long ram- bling letter . Almost all the parts of our bodies re- quire some expense . The ...
... peace : so that we may hope the luxury of a few merchants on the coast will not be the ruin of America . One reflection more , and I will end this long ram- bling letter . Almost all the parts of our bodies re- quire some expense . The ...
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... should be diminished . If rapine be abolished , one of the encouragements to war is taken away ; and peace therefore more likely to continue and be lasting . The practice of robbing merchants on the high seas - COMMERCIAL AND POLITICAL .
... should be diminished . If rapine be abolished , one of the encouragements to war is taken away ; and peace therefore more likely to continue and be lasting . The practice of robbing merchants on the high seas - COMMERCIAL AND POLITICAL .
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... peace , and serve only to increase the number of highwaymen and housebreakers . Even the un- dertakers , who have been fortunate , are by sudden wealth led into expensive living , the habit of which continues when the means of ...
... peace , and serve only to increase the number of highwaymen and housebreakers . Even the un- dertakers , who have been fortunate , are by sudden wealth led into expensive living , the habit of which continues when the means of ...
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... peace , they still continue robbing , and rob one another ? Piraterie , as the French call it , or privateering , is the universal bent of the English nation , at home and abroad , wherever settled . No less than seven hundred ...
... peace , they still continue robbing , and rob one another ? Piraterie , as the French call it , or privateering , is the universal bent of the English nation , at home and abroad , wherever settled . No less than seven hundred ...
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... peace , while the right of abusing seems to remain in full force ; the laws made against it being rendered ineffectual by the liberty of the press . My proposal then is , to leave the liberty of the press untouched , to be exercised in ...
... peace , while the right of abusing seems to remain in full force ; the laws made against it being rendered ineffectual by the liberty of the press . My proposal then is , to leave the liberty of the press untouched , to be exercised in ...
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