Essays and Letters, Volume 2R. & W.A.Bartow & Company, 1822 - American essays |
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Page 24
... laid on us farmers only ? If it be a good thing , pray , Messieurs the Public , take your share of it , by indemnifying us a little out of your public treasury . In doing a good thing , there is both honour and pleasure - you 24 ...
... laid on us farmers only ? If it be a good thing , pray , Messieurs the Public , take your share of it , by indemnifying us a little out of your public treasury . In doing a good thing , there is both honour and pleasure - you 24 ...
Page 41
... laid to make up the defi- ciency , all the additional sum laid by the new duties , and paid by other people , though it should amount to no more than a halfpenny or a farthing per head , is so much actually picked out of the pockets of ...
... laid to make up the defi- ciency , all the additional sum laid by the new duties , and paid by other people , though it should amount to no more than a halfpenny or a farthing per head , is so much actually picked out of the pockets of ...
Page 69
... lay him in the night , attack him behind , and give him a good drubbing . If your adversary hires better writers than himself to abuse you more effectually , you may hire brawny porters , stronger than your- self , to assist you in ...
... lay him in the night , attack him behind , and give him a good drubbing . If your adversary hires better writers than himself to abuse you more effectually , you may hire brawny porters , stronger than your- self , to assist you in ...
Page 74
... lay aside the accustomed method of requisition , and to raise money on America by stamps , seems not to have acted wisely , in deviating from that method which the colonists looked upon as constitutional ; and thwarting unnecessarily ...
... lay aside the accustomed method of requisition , and to raise money on America by stamps , seems not to have acted wisely , in deviating from that method which the colonists looked upon as constitutional ; and thwarting unnecessarily ...
Page 80
... laid on their trade by foreign- ers , and yet even in the last year could oppose with all their influence the giving ease to their fellow - sub- jects labouring under so heavy an oppression ! ) that on a slight complaint of a few ...
... laid on their trade by foreign- ers , and yet even in the last year could oppose with all their influence the giving ease to their fellow - sub- jects labouring under so heavy an oppression ! ) that on a slight complaint of a few ...
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