The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life, Том 2G. H. Evans, 1835 |
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... never wanting to explain them away , nor reasons to render them abortive . And if half the money which nations lavish or specu- lative alliances were reserved for their own immediate purposes , whenever the occasion shall arrive , it ...
... never wanting to explain them away , nor reasons to render them abortive . And if half the money which nations lavish or specu- lative alliances were reserved for their own immediate purposes , whenever the occasion shall arrive , it ...
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... never fail to become a loss to that nation which wastes its present substance on the expectancy of distant returns . With regard to Holland , a man must know very littie of the matter , not to know that there exists a stronger principle ...
... never fail to become a loss to that nation which wastes its present substance on the expectancy of distant returns . With regard to Holland , a man must know very littie of the matter , not to know that there exists a stronger principle ...
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... never be divided . It may be taken as a certain rule , that a subject of any country attached to the government on the principles above mentioned , is of twice the value he was before . Freedom in the subject is not a diminution , as ...
... never be divided . It may be taken as a certain rule , that a subject of any country attached to the government on the principles above mentioned , is of twice the value he was before . Freedom in the subject is not a diminution , as ...
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... never taken out again . The depositors when they have debts to pay , transfer their right to the persons to whom they are indebted , and those again proceed by the same practice , and the transfer of the right goes for payment ; now ...
... never taken out again . The depositors when they have debts to pay , transfer their right to the persons to whom they are indebted , and those again proceed by the same practice , and the transfer of the right goes for payment ; now ...
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... never will . But if a supposed unnecessary expenditure of between five and six millions ster- ling , in the finances of France ( for the writer undertakes not to judge of the fact ) has awakened that whole nation , a people supposed to ...
... never will . But if a supposed unnecessary expenditure of between five and six millions ster- ling , in the finances of France ( for the writer undertakes not to judge of the fact ) has awakened that whole nation , a people supposed to ...
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