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The merchants are a powerful clafs of the community, ahd ought at this crifis to be conciliated.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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THis is the only circumftance that can make any difference in principle between this clafs of cafes and the other two.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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I waited for this report until the i8th oi May j but finding it had not been made, I conceived it might be ufeful, in order to acce - lerate it, and to render complete, the admilTion of the entire clafs to which 'this cafe belonged, to attrad towards the Friendjhip the attention of the Minifter of Foreign Relations.
Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Admiralty; commencing with the judgments of the Right Hon. Sir William Scott, Easter term 1808 [-1812] Edwards, Thomas, 1775?-1845, reporter 1812
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What is the reafon that any particular clafs or pro - feffion in fvxacty has held its ground againft all oppofition?
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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Upon paying a fine to the king, the charter feems ge - nerally to have been readily granted; and when any particular clafs of artificers or traders thought proper to a6l as a corporation without a charter, fuch adulterine guilds, as they were called, were not always disfranchifed upon that account, but obliged to fine annually to the king for permiffion to exercife their ufurped pri - vileges *.
The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812
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It is true, there was no want of thofe of a different charafter: but they appeared to be of the lowefl clafs, and fuch of them as permitted fiuniliarides to our people, were proftitutes by profeffion.
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The nature of this trade fhould be confidered; the numerous commanders and officers of the Company's fliips (a very fuperior clafs of nautical men) have no adequate provifion from dired pecuniary allowances; their compenfation has been in the privilege of trade, and a certain allowance of tonnage, freight free.
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If the health and lives of feamen be thought of confequence to the Itate, the larger clafs of fhips fhould certainly be preferred.
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In the clafs of reptiles, we obtained feveral fpecies of lizards, one of which belongs to a new genus, differing from, but fomewhat refembling the fcincus.
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The following is the manner in which your Sub - committee have thought it advifable to clafs the difFcr.
Rules and regulations adopted by the committee for general purposes of the Stock-Exchange; 1812
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