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Modern statesmen are concerting schemes, and engaged in the depth of politics, at the time when their forefathers were laid down quietly to rest and had nothing in their heads but dreams.

From Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer by Steele, Richard, Sir

In the last Courier de l'Europe, it is said, that all the commercial powers are concerting measures to clip the wings of the eagle, and to prevent us from having a navy.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution Volume 7. by Various