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I received of the general about eight hundred pounds , to be disbursed in advance money to the wagon - owners ; but that sum being insufficient , I advanced upward of two hundred pounds more ...
I received of the general about eight hundred pounds , to be disbursed in advance money to the wagon - owners ; but that sum being insufficient , I advanced upward of two hundred pounds more ...
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I undertook this also , and was busily employed in it till we heard of his defeat ; advancing for the service , of my own money , upward of one thousand pounds sterling , of which I sent him an account .
I undertook this also , and was busily employed in it till we heard of his defeat ; advancing for the service , of my own money , upward of one thousand pounds sterling , of which I sent him an account .
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He that murders a crown destroys all that might have produced even scores of pounds . Remember that six pounds a year is but a groat a day . For this little sum ( which may be daily wasted either in time or expense unperceived ) a man ...
He that murders a crown destroys all that might have produced even scores of pounds . Remember that six pounds a year is but a groat a day . For this little sum ( which may be daily wasted either in time or expense unperceived ) a man ...
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