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... been , if I had ever had a notion that it fhould meet the publick eye . " In the mean time a large impreffion , amount- ing , it is believed , to three thousand copies , had 1 had been difperfed over the country . To re- ADVERTISEMENT . xi.
... been , if I had ever had a notion that it fhould meet the publick eye . " In the mean time a large impreffion , amount- ing , it is believed , to three thousand copies , had 1 had been difperfed over the country . To re- ADVERTISEMENT . xi.
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... mean to object to the piety , truth and perfection of our most excellent church . Both I am fenfible have their foundations on a rock . No difcovery of truth can prejudice them . On the contrary , the more clofely the origin of religion ...
... mean to object to the piety , truth and perfection of our most excellent church . Both I am fenfible have their foundations on a rock . No difcovery of truth can prejudice them . On the contrary , the more clofely the origin of religion ...
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... means every fort of ftate , however conftituted . He ought , fays this great political Doctor , to con- fider peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leifure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military plans . A ...
... means every fort of ftate , however conftituted . He ought , fays this great political Doctor , to con- fider peace only as a breathing - time , which gives him leifure to contrive , and furnishes ability to execute military plans . A ...
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... mean thofe called the Punick wars , could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the fpe- cies . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very fmall part , of the havock caufed by the Roman ambition . The war ...
... mean thofe called the Punick wars , could not have stood the human race in less than three millions of the fpe- cies . And yet this forms but a part only , and a very fmall part , of the havock caufed by the Roman ambition . The war ...
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... by fomebody else ; the numbers he has been a means of deftroying have been reckoned at 1,200,000 . But to give your Lordship an idea that may ferve as a ftand- ard , ard , by which to measure , in fome , NATURAL SOCIETY . 25.
... by fomebody else ; the numbers he has been a means of deftroying have been reckoned at 1,200,000 . But to give your Lordship an idea that may ferve as a ftand- ard , ard , by which to measure , in fome , NATURAL SOCIETY . 25.
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