Miscellanies in Prose and VerseS. Fairbrother, 1721 - 279 pages |
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... happen to alter the Cafe ; To count it mean , and below the Dig- nity of a House , to quit a Profecution ; to re- folve upon a Conclufion , before it is poffible to be apprifed of the Premiffes ; To act thus , I lay , is to affect not ...
... happen to alter the Cafe ; To count it mean , and below the Dig- nity of a House , to quit a Profecution ; to re- folve upon a Conclufion , before it is poffible to be apprifed of the Premiffes ; To act thus , I lay , is to affect not ...
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... happened that the Natives were never expelled by the Fury of Invaders , ( who thought it not worth a Con- queft ) but continued always Aborigines ; and therefore retained through all Revolutions a tincture of that turbulent Spirit ...
... happened that the Natives were never expelled by the Fury of Invaders , ( who thought it not worth a Con- queft ) but continued always Aborigines ; and therefore retained through all Revolutions a tincture of that turbulent Spirit ...
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... happened in the time of his Succeffor , at the Diffolution of the Abbies . For this turned the Clergy wholy out of the Scale , who had fo long filled it ; and placed the Commons in their ftead ; who in a few Years became poffeffed of ...
... happened in the time of his Succeffor , at the Diffolution of the Abbies . For this turned the Clergy wholy out of the Scale , who had fo long filled it ; and placed the Commons in their ftead ; who in a few Years became poffeffed of ...
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... happen to agree with me in a few fingular Notions , I must there- fore blindly follow them in all : Or , to ftate it at beft , that becaufe Eibulus the Party Man is per- fwaded that Clodius and Curio do really propofe the Good of their ...
... happen to agree with me in a few fingular Notions , I must there- fore blindly follow them in all : Or , to ftate it at beft , that becaufe Eibulus the Party Man is per- fwaded that Clodius and Curio do really propofe the Good of their ...
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... happening to be near the Court , and to have made Acquaintance there , more under one Miniftry than another . Then , I am not under the Neceffity of declaring my felf by the Profpect of an Employment . And laftly , if all this be not ...
... happening to be near the Court , and to have made Acquaintance there , more under one Miniftry than another . Then , I am not under the Neceffity of declaring my felf by the Profpect of an Employment . And laftly , if all this be not ...
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