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 13  Annuity Notes
 Ch. Grounds
 
 Steadiness
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 Nothing can prevent
 his being so prepared
 but the actual
 exhaustion of  the 
 matter in the market
 — and that, is neither
 probable — nor could
 be sudden
 — and would
 especially affect Bank
 Paper as much
 The nation taxable powers of the nation
 may be to such a degree exhausted, as
 not to suffice for the payment of the whole
 of the Annuities with which it stands chargeable
 nor consequently for the whole of this  the proposed branch
 of those Annuities. The whole island may
 become a province of France — or be swallowed
 up by the Sea — The globe of which 
it forms a part may be carried off by a 
 comet, and frozen, drowned or burnt — I
 take no an account of  any of these calamities:- and
  We have no need
 in the present occasion
 to take any
 that not so much on account   in consideration of the improbability
  of them, [+]   [+] (for there are none  is not one of them that can be pronounced impossible and some of them may be even be not impossible) as because as Bank 
 paper is the assured standard of comparison, and
 they would equally  any of them, be equally <add> no less fatal to destruction of the credit
 of Bank Notes.
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