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Page 33
... continued fitting in the post - chaife , I could fee and hear over their heads . HE faid he had come last from Spain , where he had been from the furtheft borders of Franconia ; and had got fo far on his return home , when his afs died ...
... continued fitting in the post - chaife , I could fee and hear over their heads . HE faid he had come last from Spain , where he had been from the furtheft borders of Franconia ; and had got fo far on his return home , when his afs died ...
Page 36
... continued he , ( leaning his body on one fide to let me fee her , for he was in a line be- tween us ) is fitting upon a bank playing her vefpers upon her pipe , with her little goat befide her . THE Young fellow uttered this with an ...
... continued he , ( leaning his body on one fide to let me fee her , for he was in a line be- tween us ) is fitting upon a bank playing her vefpers upon her pipe , with her little goat befide her . THE Young fellow uttered this with an ...
Page 174
... continued from year to year ; I have always been , Sir , and always fhall be , against a ftand . ing army of any kind : to me it is a terrible thing , whether under that of parliamentary or any other defignation ; a standing army is ...
... continued from year to year ; I have always been , Sir , and always fhall be , against a ftand . ing army of any kind : to me it is a terrible thing , whether under that of parliamentary or any other defignation ; a standing army is ...
Page 177
... continued but for one year longer , or for a limited term of years . How abfurd is this distinction ? Is there any army in the world continued for any term of years ! Does the most abfolute monarch tell his army , that he is to continue ...
... continued but for one year longer , or for a limited term of years . How abfurd is this distinction ? Is there any army in the world continued for any term of years ! Does the most abfolute monarch tell his army , that he is to continue ...
Page 200
... continued he , were there a point , in which fuch diffentients ever agreed , this agree ment would be no mean argument in favour of its truth and juftness . But where , replied I , is this argument to be found ? • He answered me by ...
... continued he , were there a point , in which fuch diffentients ever agreed , this agree ment would be no mean argument in favour of its truth and juftness . But where , replied I , is this argument to be found ? • He answered me by ...
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