The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Comprising His Correspondence, and His Political and Official Writings, Exclusive of the Federalist, Civil and Military, Volume 1C. S. Francis, 1851 |
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... persons , on an average , will maintain a hundred in all the necessaries of life . Postlethwaite , in his time , supposes six millions of people in England . The ratio of increase has been found by a variety of observations to be , that ...
... persons , on an average , will maintain a hundred in all the necessaries of life . Postlethwaite , in his time , supposes six millions of people in England . The ratio of increase has been found by a variety of observations to be , that ...
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... persons of Congres- sional appointment ; and would it not be advisable to pay the collectors so much per cent , on the sums collected ? HAMILTON TO THE PROVINCIAL CONGRESS OF NEW - YORK . GENTLEMEN : NEW - YORK , May 26 , 1776 . I take ...
... persons of Congres- sional appointment ; and would it not be advisable to pay the collectors so much per cent , on the sums collected ? HAMILTON TO THE PROVINCIAL CONGRESS OF NEW - YORK . GENTLEMEN : NEW - YORK , May 26 , 1776 . I take ...
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... person . I would beg the liberty warmly to recom- mend to your attention Thomas Thompson - now first Sergeant in my company — a man highly deserving of notice and prefer- ment . He has discharged his duty in his present station with ...
... person . I would beg the liberty warmly to recom- mend to your attention Thomas Thompson - now first Sergeant in my company — a man highly deserving of notice and prefer- ment . He has discharged his duty in his present station with ...
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... persons as pilots up that river . The extreme difficulties they must labor under for want of forage , and the infinite hazard they must run by moving with a small body of about five thousand men , with an enemy in the rear , incapable ...
... persons as pilots up that river . The extreme difficulties they must labor under for want of forage , and the infinite hazard they must run by moving with a small body of about five thousand men , with an enemy in the rear , incapable ...
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... persons attached to them , and inimical to us , who would lend them all the assistance they could , in the further prosecution of their designs . It is also a common and well- grounded rule in war , to strike first and principally , at ...
... persons attached to them , and inimical to us , who would lend them all the assistance they could , in the further prosecution of their designs . It is also a common and well- grounded rule in war , to strike first and principally , at ...
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