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Page 125
... never able to live it down . All sorts of people from Tories to Jacobins attacked him for his defense of Preston . It was alleged that he had received an enormous fee to betray his country , and the charge was circulated by political ...
... never able to live it down . All sorts of people from Tories to Jacobins attacked him for his defense of Preston . It was alleged that he had received an enormous fee to betray his country , and the charge was circulated by political ...
Page 181
... never worried about the inevitable result of such a financial policy . " Took an airing in the chaise with . . . Samuel Adams , " John Adams entered in his diary . " He says he never looked forward in his life ; never planned , laid a ...
... never worried about the inevitable result of such a financial policy . " Took an airing in the chaise with . . . Samuel Adams , " John Adams entered in his diary . " He says he never looked forward in his life ; never planned , laid a ...
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... never considered the influence of his example ; that he would never again give cause for the repetition of the reproof ; and that , as he had never been a communicant , were he to become one then , it would be imputed to an ostentatious ...
... never considered the influence of his example ; that he would never again give cause for the repetition of the reproof ; and that , as he had never been a communicant , were he to become one then , it would be imputed to an ostentatious ...
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