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Page 11
... five ; and if five prove infufficient , a land - tax of fix is the unavoidable confequence .--- The Country Gentlemen , therefore , if they really confulted their own emolument , fhould on all occafions ftudy to pro- mote the commercial ...
... five ; and if five prove infufficient , a land - tax of fix is the unavoidable confequence .--- The Country Gentlemen , therefore , if they really confulted their own emolument , fhould on all occafions ftudy to pro- mote the commercial ...
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... five of their carcafes in the woods , alfo several fuzees , ha- berfacks , handkerchiefs , & c . thrown away in their precipitation . " We are informed , the Caribbs fhot a centinel , as he was bathing in the river Niambou , and that a ...
... five of their carcafes in the woods , alfo several fuzees , ha- berfacks , handkerchiefs , & c . thrown away in their precipitation . " We are informed , the Caribbs fhot a centinel , as he was bathing in the river Niambou , and that a ...
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... five pound bills , emitted in November 1769 , and July 1771. Sufpicions , it feems , have been for fome time entertained in the upper parts of the country ; but it is only within thefe few days that the forgeries of the emiflion of 1771 ...
... five pound bills , emitted in November 1769 , and July 1771. Sufpicions , it feems , have been for fome time entertained in the upper parts of the country ; but it is only within thefe few days that the forgeries of the emiflion of 1771 ...
Page 53
... five years . The men and children who die in the faid inter- vals are to cause no diminution in the capitation tax , but the Lord of the place is to be anfwerable for the pay , ment as well for the dead as the living . FRANCE . Paris ...
... five years . The men and children who die in the faid inter- vals are to cause no diminution in the capitation tax , but the Lord of the place is to be anfwerable for the pay , ment as well for the dead as the living . FRANCE . Paris ...
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... bill , which continued till five o'clock , when the queftion being put , the houfe divided , and the claufe was rejected by a very confiderable majo- rity . The Errata in No I. Vol . IV . p . бо OF THE PERTH MAGAZINE.
... bill , which continued till five o'clock , when the queftion being put , the houfe divided , and the claufe was rejected by a very confiderable majo- rity . The Errata in No I. Vol . IV . p . бо OF THE PERTH MAGAZINE.
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