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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... produce benefits to England or France , on the present occasion , that could in the most distant proportion recompense to either the expense she must be at . War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsup- posed ...
... produce benefits to England or France , on the present occasion , that could in the most distant proportion recompense to either the expense she must be at . War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen and unsup- posed ...
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... produce their own natural effects , and no other , let the hopes or expectations of man be what they may . It is not our doing a thing with a design that it shall answer such or such an end , that will cause it to produce that end ; the ...
... produce their own natural effects , and no other , let the hopes or expectations of man be what they may . It is not our doing a thing with a design that it shall answer such or such an end , that will cause it to produce that end ; the ...
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... produce a circumstance by which the whole progress of the trade may be ascertained . So long as thirty years ago , the price paid to the spinners of wool was one shilling for twenty - four skeins , each skein contain- ing five hundred ...
... produce a circumstance by which the whole progress of the trade may be ascertained . So long as thirty years ago , the price paid to the spinners of wool was one shilling for twenty - four skeins , each skein contain- ing five hundred ...
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... produce also his proofs that such a right ex- isted , and show how it existed . If it ever existed , it must now exist ; for whatever appertains to the nature of man , cannot be annihilated by man . It is the nature of man to die , and ...
... produce also his proofs that such a right ex- isted , and show how it existed . If it ever existed , it must now exist ; for whatever appertains to the nature of man , cannot be annihilated by man . It is the nature of man to die , and ...
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... produce . But the defence only was not the object of the citizens . They had a cause at stake , on which depended their freedom or their slavery . They every moment expected an attack , or to hear of one made on the national assembly ...
... produce . But the defence only was not the object of the citizens . They had a cause at stake , on which depended their freedom or their slavery . They every moment expected an attack , or to hear of one made on the national assembly ...
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