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... and the national debt . These brought taxes , and so heavy as to create great discontents . The people felt themselves loaded with ten or twelve millions a year , instead of the million and a half , which they had had to pay in the ...
... and the national debt . These brought taxes , and so heavy as to create great discontents . The people felt themselves loaded with ten or twelve millions a year , instead of the million and a half , which they had had to pay in the ...
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These brought debts ; and these brought taxes . The American colonies , now the United States , all of which , observe , had been settled by the Stuarts , began , in 1770 , to present food for taxation . The parliament ( the Septennial ...
These brought debts ; and these brought taxes . The American colonies , now the United States , all of which , observe , had been settled by the Stuarts , began , in 1770 , to present food for taxation . The parliament ( the Septennial ...
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The Septennial bill had produced all its natural consequences , wars , debts , and taxation ; and , as the cause of the evils was seen , the people had begun , even during the American war , to demand a REFORM IN THE COMMONS HOUSE OF ...
The Septennial bill had produced all its natural consequences , wars , debts , and taxation ; and , as the cause of the evils was seen , the people had begun , even during the American war , to demand a REFORM IN THE COMMONS HOUSE OF ...
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of the effect of the example of the French appears to have been overlooked by our aristocracy ; and , of course , they thought nothing of the DEBT which they were contracting , though that was , as the sequel will show , destined to ...
of the effect of the example of the French appears to have been overlooked by our aristocracy ; and , of course , they thought nothing of the DEBT which they were contracting , though that was , as the sequel will show , destined to ...
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... bereave them of all strength ; that it must take from them the means of future wars , or compel them to blow up that system of debts and funds , which had been invented by them as a 1 I } n 65 C la " rock of safety , and without the ...
... bereave them of all strength ; that it must take from them the means of future wars , or compel them to blow up that system of debts and funds , which had been invented by them as a 1 I } n 65 C la " rock of safety , and without the ...
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| Title | History of the Regency and Reign of King George the Fourth, Parts 2-3; Part 8 History of the Regency and Reign of King George the Fourth, William Cobbett |
| Author | William Cobbett |
| Publisher | William Cobbett, 1830 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 29 Mar 2006 |
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