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THE REIGN
ed many very fine ships that were built in America.
In a word, this was the Augustan age of Great-Britain: the fictitious times which received their being only from the imagination of poets, were realized in this happy country: it seldom or ever happened, that the period in which military glory is carryed to its greatest height, is also the age of happiness and plenty; but this was the case in the reign of George VI. Britain, at this golden æra was at once glorious and happy.
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