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... living and the occupation of the original inhabitants of it . Thus where we find that the eldest fons fucceed to the whole , or the greatest part of the estate , we may be fure that we fee traces of feu- dal nations , of a military life ...
... living and the occupation of the original inhabitants of it . Thus where we find that the eldest fons fucceed to the whole , or the greatest part of the estate , we may be fure that we fee traces of feu- dal nations , of a military life ...
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... living manners as they rife : " Sometimes his obfervation will furnish him with the power of giving inftruction ; fometimes his imagination will enable him to convey entertainment to the mind . He may introduce an affemblage of various ...
... living manners as they rife : " Sometimes his obfervation will furnish him with the power of giving inftruction ; fometimes his imagination will enable him to convey entertainment to the mind . He may introduce an affemblage of various ...
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... of preferring , for her husband , a young man , with all his five fenfes in perfection , The former , who abfurdly attempted , like Mezen- tias , to tie the living to the dead , tius , 76 MONTHLY CATALOGUE , Dramatic . KEY to the Lock, 180.
... of preferring , for her husband , a young man , with all his five fenfes in perfection , The former , who abfurdly attempted , like Mezen- tias , to tie the living to the dead , tius , 76 MONTHLY CATALOGUE , Dramatic . KEY to the Lock, 180.
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tias , to tie the living to the dead , are to be disappointed , and the young folks are to conclude their attachment in the vulgar catastrophe of a marriage . In a farce , there is not much time to bring this about ; and , in course ...
tias , to tie the living to the dead , are to be disappointed , and the young folks are to conclude their attachment in the vulgar catastrophe of a marriage . In a farce , there is not much time to bring this about ; and , in course ...
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... living ; the whole arranged in Alphabetical Order ; and including a complete Lift of their Publications , with occa .. fional Strictures , and Anecdotes of their Lives . 8vo . 5s . Boards . Faulder . 1788 . D.O Had this defign been ably ...
... living ; the whole arranged in Alphabetical Order ; and including a complete Lift of their Publications , with occa .. fional Strictures , and Anecdotes of their Lives . 8vo . 5s . Boards . Faulder . 1788 . D.O Had this defign been ably ...
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Page 647 - Advocates chose me their Librarian, an office from which I received little or no emolument, but which gave me the command of a large library. I then formed the plan of writing the History of England...
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Page 367 - I know not how to express, otherwise, than by a calm, sweet abstraction of soul from all the concerns of this world ; and sometimes a kind of vision, or fixed ideas and imaginations, of being alone in the mountains, or some solitary wilderness...
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