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... interest , no partial interest , no selfish interest . The temptation to profit by the punishment of Boston was strongest to our neighbors of Salem . Yet Salem was precisely the place where this miserable proffer was spurned , in a tone ...
... interest , no partial interest , no selfish interest . The temptation to profit by the punishment of Boston was strongest to our neighbors of Salem . Yet Salem was precisely the place where this miserable proffer was spurned , in a tone ...
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... interests springing up , in envious rivalry of England . " This seems extraordinary language . South Carolina no ... interest , or from a regard to her own welfare , to take up arms in the Revolutionary contest ? Can any one account ...
... interests springing up , in envious rivalry of England . " This seems extraordinary language . South Carolina no ... interest , or from a regard to her own welfare , to take up arms in the Revolutionary contest ? Can any one account ...
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... interests of the social body , should at least have been mitigated by a counterbalancing policy . When ignorance and ... interest , to a worse than passive attitude . We made it , as it were , easy for rascals who had gone South in quest ...
... interests of the social body , should at least have been mitigated by a counterbalancing policy . When ignorance and ... interest , to a worse than passive attitude . We made it , as it were , easy for rascals who had gone South in quest ...
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