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Heelis family cookbook, 1850s
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against the weaker in the first instance, & leaving them (i.e. the stronger) to the last they were likely to find them weaker when all the rest were lopped from around them. But had they begun with us whilst all of them had their original strength and the whereunto they might fly for refuge they would not have found us so easy a handful. And our navy too created them some uneasiness lest at any time forming a union by attaching itself either to you or to some other state it might emperil their interests. And then again by praying court to their state and those
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against the weaker in the first instance, & leaving them (i.e. the stronger) to the last they were likely to find them weaker when all the rest were lopped from around them. But had they begun with us whilst all of them had their original strength and the whereunto they might fly for refuge they would not have found us so easy a handful. And our navy too created them some uneasiness lest at any time forming a union by attaching itself either to you or to some other state it might emperil their interests. And then again by praying court to their state and those
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