All 6 Uses of
contract
in
Common Sense
- Debts we have none; and whatever we may contract on this account will serve as a glorious memento of our virtue.†
Chpt 4.
- The debt we may contract doth not deserve our regard, if the work be but accomplished.†
Chpt 4. *
- From a mixture of prejudice and inattention, we have contracted a false notion respecting the navy of England, and have talked as if we should have the whole of it to encounter at once, and for that reason, supposed, that we must have one as large; which not being instantly practicable, have been made use of by a set of disguised Tories to discourage our beginning thereon.†
Chpt 4.
- The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and the friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.†
Chpt 4.
- Should affairs be patched up with Britain, and she to remain the governing and sovereign power of America, (which, as matters are now circumstanced, is giving up the point entirely) we shall deprive ourselves of the very means of sinking the debt we have, or may contract.†
Chpt Appe
- To be on the footing of sixty-three, it is not sufficient, that the laws only be put on the same state, but, that our circumstances, likewise, be put on the same state; Our burnt and destroyed towns repaired or built up, our private losses made good, our public debts (contracted for defence) discharged; otherwise, we shall be millions worse than we were at that enviable period.†
Chpt Appe
Definition:
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(contract as in: legal contract) an agreement - typically written and enforceable by law