The Scots Magazine, Volume 47Sands, Brymer, Murray and Cochran, 1785 |
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... subject ; but fuch a compact has feldom had any actual exiftence . The English national charters , however , feemed to realize fuch a compact and thefe charters had all been recognised and confirmed by the bill of rights ; 2 folemn and ...
... subject ; but fuch a compact has feldom had any actual exiftence . The English national charters , however , feemed to realize fuch a compact and thefe charters had all been recognised and confirmed by the bill of rights ; 2 folemn and ...
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... subject . Thus , my dear Philip , was happily terminated the great ftruggle between privilege and prerogative , between the crown and the people ; which commen- ced , as you have feen , with the acceffion of the family of Stuart to the ...
... subject . Thus , my dear Philip , was happily terminated the great ftruggle between privilege and prerogative , between the crown and the people ; which commen- ced , as you have feen , with the acceffion of the family of Stuart to the ...
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... subject be- fore him , gratifies his reader with many good obfervations on general politics . · He ftates the following inftance , to fhew the great difference between a tax on land and a tax on the produce of land . " Two acres of land ...
... subject be- fore him , gratifies his reader with many good obfervations on general politics . · He ftates the following inftance , to fhew the great difference between a tax on land and a tax on the produce of land . " Two acres of land ...
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... subject may be comprised in a few ⋅ words . In the courfe of the laft twelve- month , the whole income which he had received for the fubfiftence of fo large a domestic establishment , from a territory of fome extent , and from the ...
... subject may be comprised in a few ⋅ words . In the courfe of the laft twelve- month , the whole income which he had received for the fubfiftence of fo large a domestic establishment , from a territory of fome extent , and from the ...
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... subject which had caufed a very ferious alarm in a dif tant part of the kingdom . What he al- luded to , he faid , was an act of laft feffion , relative to the distillery , in which there were the following claufes affecting Scotland ...
... subject which had caufed a very ferious alarm in a dif tant part of the kingdom . What he al- luded to , he faid , was an act of laft feffion , relative to the distillery , in which there were the following claufes affecting Scotland ...
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Page 111 - As she was fetching away the last piece, they levelled their muskets at the cubs, and shot them both dead ; and in her retreat they wounded the dam, but not mortally. It would have drawn tears of pity from any but unfeeling minds, to have marked the affectionate concern expressed by this poor beast, in the dying moments of her expiring young.
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