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... land fhall be fubjected at home , the court will carry on a foreign war with the greater facility , and the whole nation being in one way of thinking , the fupplies of men and money for Flanders will be great ; that nothing is more ...
... land fhall be fubjected at home , the court will carry on a foreign war with the greater facility , and the whole nation being in one way of thinking , the fupplies of men and money for Flanders will be great ; that nothing is more ...
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... land fhould be abfolute mafter , and be able to difpofe according to his will of all the power of the nation . " Sir John Dalrymple tells us , in his preface , that when he found , in the French difpatches , Lord Ruffel intriguing with ...
... land fhould be abfolute mafter , and be able to difpofe according to his will of all the power of the nation . " Sir John Dalrymple tells us , in his preface , that when he found , in the French difpatches , Lord Ruffel intriguing with ...
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... land into grafs fields ; rents , he fays , have been raifed nearly in the fame proportion in places where the fizes ... land is kept perpetually in grafs , the old grafs raifes cattle to a higher and more delicate degree of fatnefs . It ...
... land into grafs fields ; rents , he fays , have been raifed nearly in the fame proportion in places where the fizes ... land is kept perpetually in grafs , the old grafs raifes cattle to a higher and more delicate degree of fatnefs . It ...
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... land into grafs fields ; rents , he fays , have been raifed nearly in the fame proportion in places where the fizes ... land is kept perpetually in grafs , the old grafs raifes cattle to a higher and more delicate degree of fatnefs . It ...
... land into grafs fields ; rents , he fays , have been raifed nearly in the fame proportion in places where the fizes ... land is kept perpetually in grafs , the old grafs raifes cattle to a higher and more delicate degree of fatnefs . It ...
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... land - holders and farmers for the cause of the prefent high price of provifions . Let them attend to the change in their own way of living , from that of perfons in their stations for- merly , and they will not find it a difficult ...
... land - holders and farmers for the cause of the prefent high price of provifions . Let them attend to the change in their own way of living , from that of perfons in their stations for- merly , and they will not find it a difficult ...
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