Excerpt from A Letter From a Member of Parliament to His Friends in the Country: Concerning the Duties on Wine and Tobacco With this View a Geaera/ Excife mu be echoed through the nation as an intended pre/cet, and then the weekly writers mu be employ'd with great rhetorick to fbew the dreadful confequences of fat/7 a grie name. This they have done, and this has had the intended effect it has in fome de gree diflurbed the prefiat quiet, and lefien'd the prefiat happinefs, of a free and flourilh ing people, who were ...
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Excerpt from A Letter From a Member of Parliament to His Friends in the Country: Concerning the Duties on Wine and Tobacco With this View a Geaera/ Excife mu be echoed through the nation as an intended pre/cet, and then the weekly writers mu be employ'd with great rhetorick to fbew the dreadful confequences of fat/7 a grie name. This they have done, and this has had the intended effect it has in fome de gree diflurbed the prefiat quiet, and lefien'd the prefiat happinefs, of a free and flourilh ing people, who were reaping the a/ejfed effects of twitter/at peace, by extending their commerce pleafed with tie happy period which has been put to the alarms and un certainties the nation had been under for fome years, by the precarious fituation of af fairs abroad, and fecure in the uninterruptg ed polfe ion of the highefi Li???erty at bome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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