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a loan not a purchase of paper, by which he has stipulated for himself more than legal Int:
To consider this a purchase of paper, would be to admit of those usurious shiffs which have been so much reprobated. The usurer (like the Jew in the play) has no money hims: but he has a friend to whom he will apply, that friend has no money but he has Stock, &, if you will take for 100 Pounds, a nominal 100£ in such a stock, he will
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