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... instance , an accident of little mo- ment has occafioned a flight deviation from the strict chronological arrangement ; and that on the other hand , a speech of confpicuous excel- lence , on his declining the poll at Bristol , in 1780 ...
... instance , an accident of little mo- ment has occafioned a flight deviation from the strict chronological arrangement ; and that on the other hand , a speech of confpicuous excel- lence , on his declining the poll at Bristol , in 1780 ...
Page xxv
... instances broken , to infert pieces that were not difco- vered till it was too late to introduce them in their proper places . In the Appendix to the Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts the references were found to be confused , and ...
... instances broken , to infert pieces that were not difco- vered till it was too late to introduce them in their proper places . In the Appendix to the Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts the references were found to be confused , and ...
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... Instances of this fort compose the uniform of history . But there have been periods when no less than universal destruction to the race of man kind seems to have been threatened . Such was that , when the Goths , the Vandals , and the ...
... Instances of this fort compose the uniform of history . But there have been periods when no less than universal destruction to the race of man kind seems to have been threatened . Such was that , when the Goths , the Vandals , and the ...
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... instance of this . No man had done greater things , nor with more honest ambition . Yet on his re- turn to court , he was obliged to enter Rome with all the secrecy of a criminal . He went to the pa- lace , not like a victorious ...
... instance of this . No man had done greater things , nor with more honest ambition . Yet on his re- turn to court , he was obliged to enter Rome with all the secrecy of a criminal . He went to the pa- lace , not like a victorious ...
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... instances of this kind . The earth shook ( says the pfalmift ) , the heavens alfo dropped at the presence of the Lord . And what is remarkable , the painting preferves the fame cha- racter , ( racter , not only when he is supposed ...
... instances of this kind . The earth shook ( says the pfalmift ) , the heavens alfo dropped at the presence of the Lord . And what is remarkable , the painting preferves the fame cha- racter , ( racter , not only when he is supposed ...
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