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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... Occasion Assurances of a Loan of Money : but I cannot . I have taken every Measure in my Power to accomplish it , but I have met with so many Difficulties that I almost despair of obtaining any thing . I have found the Avidity of ...
... Occasion Assurances of a Loan of Money : but I cannot . I have taken every Measure in my Power to accomplish it , but I have met with so many Difficulties that I almost despair of obtaining any thing . I have found the Avidity of ...
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... occasion escape to reason on this matter with me , and they have frequently claimed to prove to me that it would be in the interest of the Realm to open all our ports in the Antilles , to give up the Sugar trade , in a word to have our ...
... occasion escape to reason on this matter with me , and they have frequently claimed to prove to me that it would be in the interest of the Realm to open all our ports in the Antilles , to give up the Sugar trade , in a word to have our ...
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... occasion might require . - If the enemy had not a Superior force , they would be obliged to keep in Port , & their convoys would be exposed to misfortunes which might be even fatal to them . If they had a superior force still they would ...
... occasion might require . - If the enemy had not a Superior force , they would be obliged to keep in Port , & their convoys would be exposed to misfortunes which might be even fatal to them . If they had a superior force still they would ...
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... occasion , I blush when I meet a member of Congress who enquires into what is passing in Europe - When the General ' applies to me for advices on the same Subject which must regulate his movements - I am compelled to inform him that we ...
... occasion , I blush when I meet a member of Congress who enquires into what is passing in Europe - When the General ' applies to me for advices on the same Subject which must regulate his movements - I am compelled to inform him that we ...
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... occasion such reduction 2dly that if it did , it would be beneficial to the Community . My doubt upon the 1 head arises from this consideration : If as I maintain , the encreased wealth & population of the Islands occasions an encreased ...
... occasion such reduction 2dly that if it did , it would be beneficial to the Community . My doubt upon the 1 head arises from this consideration : If as I maintain , the encreased wealth & population of the Islands occasions an encreased ...
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