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... question , wheth the possession of an inconsiderable territory , without for would not be attended with more loss than advantage , as must necessarily occasion considerable expense , must quire troops for its defence , and might ...
... question , wheth the possession of an inconsiderable territory , without for would not be attended with more loss than advantage , as must necessarily occasion considerable expense , must quire troops for its defence , and might ...
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... question to a mere question of force , and thus oblige Fyzoola Khân to send the five thousand horse : " for continues the vizier ) if , when the Company's affairs , on hich my honour depends require it , Fyzoola Khân will not lend his ...
... question to a mere question of force , and thus oblige Fyzoola Khân to send the five thousand horse : " for continues the vizier ) if , when the Company's affairs , on hich my honour depends require it , Fyzoola Khân will not lend his ...
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... question was repeated with like effect . The said Johnson , in presence of proper wit- nesses , then drew up his protest , " together with a memo- randum of a palliative offer made by the Nabob Fyzoola Khân , " and inserted in the ...
... question was repeated with like effect . The said Johnson , in presence of proper wit- nesses , then drew up his protest , " together with a memo- randum of a palliative offer made by the Nabob Fyzoola Khân , " and inserted in the ...
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... questions , which have been stated to me , in as explicit a manner as I am able . To such information as I can give , the honourable court is fully en- titled , and where that shall prove defective I will point out the easy means , by ...
... questions , which have been stated to me , in as explicit a manner as I am able . To such information as I can give , the honourable court is fully en- titled , and where that shall prove defective I will point out the easy means , by ...
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... question , and to state the terms of it in my reply , by informing you , the endorse- ment on the bonds was made about the period of my leaving the presidency , in the middle of the year 1781 , in order to guard against their becoming a ...
... question , and to state the terms of it in my reply , by informing you , the endorse- ment on the bonds was made about the period of my leaving the presidency , in the middle of the year 1781 , in order to guard against their becoming a ...
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Page 135 - ... of the low fat Bedford level will have nothing to fear from all the pickaxes of all the levellers of France. As long as our sovereign lord the king, and his faithful subjects, the lords and commons of this realm — the triple cord which no man can break...