The Life of George Washington,: Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States, Volumen3C.P. Wayne., 1804 |
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... tion . On being pressed through the Jerseys , with an army daily diminishing in its numbers , general Washington had called on Massachus- setts for a re - enforcement of militia , and six thousand men , under general Lincoln , had been ...
... tion . On being pressed through the Jerseys , with an army daily diminishing in its numbers , general Washington had called on Massachus- setts for a re - enforcement of militia , and six thousand men , under general Lincoln , had been ...
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... out of the ques- tion , and " conceiving the obligations of hu- manity , and the claims of rank , to be univer- sally binding , except in the case of retaliation ; 1 1776 . expressed the hope he had entertained , that 22 THE LIFE OF.
... out of the ques- tion , and " conceiving the obligations of hu- manity , and the claims of rank , to be univer- sally binding , except in the case of retaliation ; 1 1776 . expressed the hope he had entertained , that 22 THE LIFE OF.
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... tion . The opinion was almost universal , that this faith would be sacredly observed . In some of the colonies , as in Virginia , depreciation had never been known . Only small sums of paper had been issued , and those sums had been ...
... tion . The opinion was almost universal , that this faith would be sacredly observed . In some of the colonies , as in Virginia , depreciation had never been known . Only small sums of paper had been issued , and those sums had been ...
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... tion , furnished motives for giving a value to paper , which overbalanced the apprehensions their past experience might otherwise have excited . There were other causes which , in some degree , aided the first admission of paper bills ...
... tion , furnished motives for giving a value to paper , which overbalanced the apprehensions their past experience might otherwise have excited . There were other causes which , in some degree , aided the first admission of paper bills ...
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... tion , or the discontents it would have excited , would most have operated on the war . 1776 . Taxation , the unpleasant but only effectual mode of preventing as much as possible the rapid increase of the quantity of paper money in ...
... tion , or the discontents it would have excited , would most have operated on the war . 1776 . Taxation , the unpleasant but only effectual mode of preventing as much as possible the rapid increase of the quantity of paper money in ...
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