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... state of contention and warfare ; that he is doomed to ftruggle with difficulties , and is at all times liable to be compelled to oppofe and to furmount dangers , or to perith in the encounter ; and that these are circumstances from ...
... state of contention and warfare ; that he is doomed to ftruggle with difficulties , and is at all times liable to be compelled to oppofe and to furmount dangers , or to perith in the encounter ; and that these are circumstances from ...
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... state , than the enter- ing into any ties of affinity with a near neighbour , who is much its fuperior in power . The weaker ftate , for the prefent funfhine of a tranfitory fummer , frequently en- tails upon itself all the rigours of a ...
... state , than the enter- ing into any ties of affinity with a near neighbour , who is much its fuperior in power . The weaker ftate , for the prefent funfhine of a tranfitory fummer , frequently en- tails upon itself all the rigours of a ...
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... state of Tunis , a war of this nature is infinitely more pre- He judicial to it than it would to any other of the Barbary powers , yet the obftinacy of the dey has hither- to appeared unconquerable . had laid it down at the beginning ...
... state of Tunis , a war of this nature is infinitely more pre- He judicial to it than it would to any other of the Barbary powers , yet the obftinacy of the dey has hither- to appeared unconquerable . had laid it down at the beginning ...
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... state of apathy , and feemed almoft en- tirely to have loft its rank in the estimation and confideration of the other powers of Europe . That bloody catastrophe ferved to eftablish the power of the queen dowager beyond all controul ...
... state of apathy , and feemed almoft en- tirely to have loft its rank in the estimation and confideration of the other powers of Europe . That bloody catastrophe ferved to eftablish the power of the queen dowager beyond all controul ...
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... state , were the oftenfible directors of the affairs of the king- dom ; the event , however , fhews , that he derived every benefit from his own popularity , and from the odium under which the ruling pow- ers laboured on account of the ...
... state , were the oftenfible directors of the affairs of the king- dom ; the event , however , fhews , that he derived every benefit from his own popularity , and from the odium under which the ruling pow- ers laboured on account of the ...
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