Miscellaneous Works of the Late Dr. Arbuthnot, Volume 2W. Richardson and L. Urquhart, 1770 |
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... Matter whether Wind or Rain , Or hot or cold : For in a Breath , I'm fometimes fcorch'd , and froze to Death .. Rain has been often the Creation Of a dry frozen Conversation . No Wind e'er rages -- but it blows In Sympathetick Mouths of ...
... Matter whether Wind or Rain , Or hot or cold : For in a Breath , I'm fometimes fcorch'd , and froze to Death .. Rain has been often the Creation Of a dry frozen Conversation . No Wind e'er rages -- but it blows In Sympathetick Mouths of ...
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... Matter which , a Dofe Your Senfes does in Sleep compofe ; Waking , all your Adventures feem An idle , trifling , feverish Dream . This Fate , indeed , does not befal ( Tho ' much the greater Numbers ) all : For fome o'er - leap with ...
... Matter which , a Dofe Your Senfes does in Sleep compofe ; Waking , all your Adventures feem An idle , trifling , feverish Dream . This Fate , indeed , does not befal ( Tho ' much the greater Numbers ) all : For fome o'er - leap with ...
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... Matter beyond all Dif- pute ; have you not this very Seafon imported from Italy an Arch Friend , one Care - no , that will play the Devil with us before he quits us , and leagued yourself to a notorious Witch , one Str - da , that never ...
... Matter beyond all Dif- pute ; have you not this very Seafon imported from Italy an Arch Friend , one Care - no , that will play the Devil with us before he quits us , and leagued yourself to a notorious Witch , one Str - da , that never ...
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... Matters food at that Time with John he muft have complied , had the Tenants infifted on annual Nuptials , as practifed by his Ancestors ; but they were artfully put by the making fuch a falutary Demand by fome of the Landlord's Head ...
... Matters food at that Time with John he muft have complied , had the Tenants infifted on annual Nuptials , as practifed by his Ancestors ; but they were artfully put by the making fuch a falutary Demand by fome of the Landlord's Head ...
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... Matters in Confu- fion on his Arrival , he chopped about , made a pub- lick Entry to the Manor - Houfe , and afterwards made a Merit of his Sufferings , and opportune Arrival , to ferve the prefent Landlord . CHAP . CHA P. IV . How ...
... Matters in Confu- fion on his Arrival , he chopped about , made a pub- lick Entry to the Manor - Houfe , and afterwards made a Merit of his Sufferings , and opportune Arrival , to ferve the prefent Landlord . CHAP . CHA P. IV . How ...
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