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" We have been here but little more than one hundred years, and yet the force of our privateers in the late war, united, was greater, both in men and guns, than that of the whole British navy in Queen Elizabeth's time. "
The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 202
1772
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The Scots Magazine, Volume 18

English literature - 1756 - 724 pages
...number of Engliihmen will be on this fide the water. We have been here but little more than one hundred years, and yet the force of our privateers in the late war was greater, both in men and guns, than that of the whole Britiih navy in Q¿ Elifabeth's time. How...
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Political Essays Concerning the Present State of the British ..., Volume 6

Arthur Young - Great Britain - 1772 - 572 pages
...certainly would. " We have " been here," fays an American writer, " but little more than one hun** dred years, and yet the force of our privateers in the late war (that of " 1744) united, was greater both in men and guns, than that of the whole " Britifti navy in...
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Political, Miscellaneous, and Philosophical Pieces: Arranged Under the ...

Benjamin Franklin - American prose literature - 1779 - 610 pages
...and navigatioa ! What numbers of {hips and feamen ! We have been here but little more than a hundred years,, and yet the force of our privateers in the late war, united, was greater both in men and guns, than that of the whole Britifh navy in queen Elizabeth's...
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The British Prose Writers...: Dr. B. Franklin's essays

British prose literature - 1821 - 356 pages
...and navigation ! What numbers of ships and seamen ! We have been here but little more than a hundred years, and yet the force of our privateers in the late war, united, was greater, both in men and guns, than that of the whole British navy in queen Elizabeth's...
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The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and ..., Volume 2

Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1836 - 584 pages
...been here but little more than one hundred years, and yet the force of our privateers in the late war, united, was greater, both in men and guns, than that of the whole British navy in Queen Elizabeth's time. How important an affair then to Britain is the present treaty...
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The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and ..., Volume 2

Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1836 - 584 pages
...navigation ! What numbers of ships and seamen ! We have been here but little more than one hundred years, and yet the force of our privateers in the late war, united, was greater, both in men and guns, than that of the whole British navy in Queen Elizabeth's...
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The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and ..., Volume 2

Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1844 - 600 pages
...navigation ! What numbers of ships and seamen ! We have been here but little more than one hundred years, and yet the force of our privateers in the late war, united, was greater, both in men and guns, than that of the whole British navy in Queen Elizabeth's...
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The New quarterly review, and digest of current literature, Volume 4

1855 - 534 pages
...Englishmen will be on that side of the water.' We know that ' the force of their privateers in the late war was greater, both in men and guns, than that of the whole British Navy in Queen Elizabeth's time.' § " Cato, on a great occasion, said, Delenda eit Carthago....
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A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Economical Tracts

John Ramsay McCulloch - Economics - 1859 - 618 pages
...and navigation ? What numbers of ships and seamen? We have been here but little more than a hundred years, and yet the force of our privateers in the late war, united, was greater, both in men and guns, than that of the whole British navy in Queen Elizabeth's...
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The Writings of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 3

Benjamin Franklin - United States - 1905 - 512 pages
...Trade and Navigation ! What Numbers of Ships and Seamen ! We have been here but little more than 100 years, and yet the Force of our Privateers in the late War, united, was greater, both in Men and Guns, than that of the whole British Navy in Queen Elizabeth's...
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