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Positions To Be Examined

April 4. 1769 1. All Food or Subsistence for Mankind arise from the Earth or Waters. 2. Necessaries of Life that are not Foods, and all other Conveniencies, have their Values estimated by the Proportion of Food consumed while we are employed in procuring them. 3. A small People with a large Territory may subsist…

Defense of American Placeholders

To the PRINTER. Your correspondent Machiavel tells us, that “Nothing can be a greater burlesque on Patriotism, than the conduct of the Americans, who affect discontent at being taxed, and therefore not only petition and remonstrate, but are continually writing pamphlets, filling news-papers, and consecrating Trees to Liberty; when, at the same time, many of…