The Emerging Nation: A Documentary History of the Foreign Relations of the United States Under the Articles of Confederation, 1780-1789National Historical Publications and Records Commission, 1996 |
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... expect it : and further that the Public have a Right to expect that whatever Advantages are honestly to be made in this Way , should return sometime or other to America , together with the Knowledge and Experience gained at the same ...
... expect it : and further that the Public have a Right to expect that whatever Advantages are honestly to be made in this Way , should return sometime or other to America , together with the Knowledge and Experience gained at the same ...
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... expect to receive such cordial and zealous assistance , as We might receive if the Government and People had but one Heart . I wish it were in my Power to give Congress upon this Occasion Assurances of a Loan of Money : but I cannot . I ...
... expect to receive such cordial and zealous assistance , as We might receive if the Government and People had but one Heart . I wish it were in my Power to give Congress upon this Occasion Assurances of a Loan of Money : but I cannot . I ...
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... expect this Treaty , will be finished , and Signed in less Time than three . months , though Some of the most active members of the Government tell me , they think it may be Signed in Six Weeks . I have , after innumerable Vexations ...
... expect this Treaty , will be finished , and Signed in less Time than three . months , though Some of the most active members of the Government tell me , they think it may be Signed in Six Weeks . I have , after innumerable Vexations ...
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... expect more ; that if Drafts & Demands came upon me beyond that Sum , it behov'd me to take Care how I accepted them , or where I should find funds for the Payment , since I could certainly not be farther assisted out of the Royal ...
... expect more ; that if Drafts & Demands came upon me beyond that Sum , it behov'd me to take Care how I accepted them , or where I should find funds for the Payment , since I could certainly not be farther assisted out of the Royal ...
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... expect we shall obtain that Sum for a long time . If we get a Million and an half By Christmas , it will be more than I expect . I shall not venture to dispose of any of this Money , except for relief of escaped Prisoners , the Payement ...
... expect we shall obtain that Sum for a long time . If we get a Million and an half By Christmas , it will be more than I expect . I shall not venture to dispose of any of this Money , except for relief of escaped Prisoners , the Payement ...
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