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HISTORY OF EUROPE. 
minds of all, both within and with- 
out the walls of parliament, were 
very generally decided; yet the 
‘actual period of its termination, 
was completely suspended, and he 
proceeded, in confidence and se- 
curity, to proyide for the exi- 
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gencies of the war, on systems of 
defence and finance, sufficiently no- 
vel, at least, to cause the strongest 
difference of opinion in, and a 
very unusual protraction of, the ses- 
sion of parliament, 
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