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... administration of 1764. I shall attempt to fill up the void and obliterated parts , and trace its operation . The standing expense of the present ( his projected ) peace establishment , improved by the experience of the two last years ...
... administration of 1764. I shall attempt to fill up the void and obliterated parts , and trace its operation . The standing expense of the present ( his projected ) peace establishment , improved by the experience of the two last years ...
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... administration ? must it not go to the gene- ral service of the year , in some way or other , let the finances be in whose hands they will ? But why take credit for so extremely reduced a deficiency at all ? I can tell him he has no ...
... administration ? must it not go to the gene- ral service of the year , in some way or other , let the finances be in whose hands they will ? But why take credit for so extremely reduced a deficiency at all ? I can tell him he has no ...
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... administration , to any administration ; because they are the gift of time , and not the bounty of the exchequer . I have now done with all the minor , preparatory parts of the author's scheme , the several articles of saving which he ...
... administration , to any administration ; because they are the gift of time , and not the bounty of the exchequer . I have now done with all the minor , preparatory parts of the author's scheme , the several articles of saving which he ...
Page 252
... administration , he finds neither vir- tue nor ability in any but himself . Indeed he pays ( through their measures ) some compliments to Lord Bute and Lord Despenser . But to the latter , this is , I suppose , but a civil- ity to old ...
... administration , he finds neither vir- tue nor ability in any but himself . Indeed he pays ( through their measures ) some compliments to Lord Bute and Lord Despenser . But to the latter , this is , I suppose , but a civil- ity to old ...
Page 253
... administration contended only for its continu- ance for a year , in order to have the merit of taking off the shilling in the pound immediately before the elections ; and thus to bribe the freeholders of England with their own money ...
... administration contended only for its continu- ance for a year , in order to have the merit of taking off the shilling in the pound immediately before the elections ; and thus to bribe the freeholders of England with their own money ...
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