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The par - liament in the mean time began to IfTue ordinances for a more effectual oppofition to thefe military encroacli - ments, when they were allunilhed by a meffage from CromwcU, that he intended paying them a viiit next day with his whole armv; and in the mean time or - dering them to ralfe him L. 40,000 on the city of London.
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They may for a time rivet the chains of defpotifm, as in Ruflia, or ralfe a bloody anarchy on the ruins of monarchy as in France.
A letter, commercial and political, addressed to the Rt. Honble. William Pitt: in which the real interests of Britain, in the present crisis, are considered, and some observations are offered on the general state of Europe .. Currie, James, 1756-1805 1793
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Tjie word is in the old editioo rioamJnJ, which I do not an* derlUnd, bat mention it, in hopes otheri may ralfe fome happj conjeAure.
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: Bead forward your awful prefence from the floods of yonr reft, warriors of old t ye wfco ralfe no more the fpear m batdes, be near.
The Works of the Caledonian Bards: Translated from the Galic 1783
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We are farther told *, that the planters of Virginia long ago petitioned for lands over the mountains, in order to carry their negroes to raife to - bacco on the frefh lands: are we to fuppofe thcfe men fuch fools, that they would at - tepipt to ralfe a product which they could not eat, in a country that had not cheap communication with the fea; for cheap it muft be to make planting of tobacco a bufi - nefs that anfwers.
Observations on the present state of the waste lands of Great Britain 1773
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Proceeding flill up the river, its banks are found generally to ralfe ihcmfclvei above ihc level of the water i and when you have gone up one tide (betwlit twenty and thirty miles), they are to high that there is no farther occafion for dams to keep the plantations from being overflowed at lii;; h water, as below: canals or ditches are fulEcient to drain the land, which is (lill perfectly flat.
A Journal of natural philosophy, chemistry, and the arts .. 1797
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