This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 Excerpt: ...on the conduct and character of the Hampshire Parsons, .and particularly on those of (heir owti Parson, Baker. North Hiiiniistiml, Ltmg l, ltmd; ', . 10, Nov. 1818. My Old Neighbours, Great as the distance between you and me is, I very often think of you; and especially when I buy alt, vrhich our Neighbour Warner used ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1819 Excerpt: ...on the conduct and character of the Hampshire Parsons, .and particularly on those of (heir owti Parson, Baker. North Hiiiniistiml, Ltmg l, ltmd; ', . 10, Nov. 1818. My Old Neighbours, Great as the distance between you and me is, I very often think of you; and especially when I buy alt, vrhich our Neighbour Warner used to sell us for 19s. a bushel, and which I buy here for 2s. 6d. This salt is made, you know, down somewhere by Hamble. This very salt, when, brought here from England, has all the charges of freight, insurance, wharfage, storage, to pay. It pays besides, one-third of its value in duty to the American Government before it be landed here. Then, you will observe, there is the profit of the American Salt Merchant; and then that of the shop-keeper who sells me the salt. And, after all this, I buy that very Hampshire salt for 2s. 6d. a bushel, English measure. What a government, then, must that of the Boroughmongers be! The salt is a gift of God. It is thrown on the shore. And yet, these tyrants will not suffer us to use it, until we" have paid them 15s. a bushel for liberty to usfi it. They will not suffer us to use the salt, which God has sent us, until we have given them'15. a bushel fo'r them to bestow on themselves, on their families and. dependents, in the payment of the interest of the Debt, which they save contracted, and in paying those, whom they hire to shoot at us. Yes; England is a fine coanry; it is a glorious country; it contains an ingenious, industrious, Printed by W. Molineux, 5, Bream's Buildings, Chancery Lane, for W. Jaskson 34, Wanlour Street, Soho, London. a brave and warm-hearted people; but, it is now disgraced and enslaved: it is trodden down by these tyrants; and we must free it. We cannot and we will not live and die the...
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Add this copy of Cobbett's Political Register, Volume 34 to cart. $68.73, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2011 by Nabu Press.
