The Magazine of Magazines: Compiled from Original Pieces, with Extracts from the Most Celebrated Books, and Periodical Compositions, Published in Europe... The Whole Forming a Complete Literary and Historical Account of that Period..., Volume 13Andrew Welsh, 1757 |
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... bill ; but I ex- pected , and it was natural to expect , that arguments would have been made ufe of against it , of a fort very different from thofe I have heard in this debate : I expected , that an at- tempt would have been made to ...
... bill ; but I ex- pected , and it was natural to expect , that arguments would have been made ufe of against it , of a fort very different from thofe I have heard in this debate : I expected , that an at- tempt would have been made to ...
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... bill now before us were therefore , time of peace , with confent of par- I think , in the right not to provide for liament , fuch a number of regular any horfe militia ; for fuch a one is in- troops as may he neceffary for prefer- deed ...
... bill now before us were therefore , time of peace , with confent of par- I think , in the right not to provide for liament , fuch a number of regular any horfe militia ; for fuch a one is in- troops as may he neceffary for prefer- deed ...
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... bill as this had been paffed into a law twenty years ago , much greater and more for- midable additions might have been made to our regular army . This confideration alone , Sir , fhould make us pafs the bill now before us . Even ...
... bill as this had been paffed into a law twenty years ago , much greater and more for- midable additions might have been made to our regular army . This confideration alone , Sir , fhould make us pafs the bill now before us . Even ...
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... bill , are the more or men will be fooner fit for fervice . to blame for not offering those ob- In twenty or thirty years all the com- jections upon the fecond reading of non men in the kingdom , that is to the bill , or in the ...
... bill , are the more or men will be fooner fit for fervice . to blame for not offering those ob- In twenty or thirty years all the com- jections upon the fecond reading of non men in the kingdom , that is to the bill , or in the ...
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... bill be paffed into a law , we fhall foon fee every yong man of property in this kingdom ferving his term in the militia , and impatient for its coming to his turn perhaps all of them making intereft with fuch of their feniors as happen ...
... bill be paffed into a law , we fhall foon fee every yong man of property in this kingdom ferving his term in the militia , and impatient for its coming to his turn perhaps all of them making intereft with fuch of their feniors as happen ...
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