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... feveral taxes that have been adopted fince the Revolution , and the gradual increase of the revenue fince that time to the clofe of the year 1788. The author concludes with the following abftract of the fupplies fince the Revolu tion ...
... feveral taxes that have been adopted fince the Revolution , and the gradual increase of the revenue fince that time to the clofe of the year 1788. The author concludes with the following abftract of the fupplies fince the Revolu tion ...
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... feveral extracts from the writings of the best and wifeft of the established clergy , men eminent for their morals , for their learning , and for their rank in the church , who have expreffed themfelves in favour of a reform . In ...
... feveral extracts from the writings of the best and wifeft of the established clergy , men eminent for their morals , for their learning , and for their rank in the church , who have expreffed themfelves in favour of a reform . In ...
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... feveral books and chapters . The first book treats of purifications , and confifts of five diftinct chapters . The first mentions purifications in general ; the fecond , waters pure or impure , and confequently fit or unfit for ...
... feveral books and chapters . The first book treats of purifications , and confifts of five diftinct chapters . The first mentions purifications in general ; the fecond , waters pure or impure , and confequently fit or unfit for ...
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... feveral hints , that , if he would agree with him , and help to rob and murder me , he should fhare the booty with him , and it never would be known . But Soliman pretended not to understand this , always affuring him that I was not the ...
... feveral hints , that , if he would agree with him , and help to rob and murder me , he should fhare the booty with him , and it never would be known . But Soliman pretended not to understand this , always affuring him that I was not the ...
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... feveral times round and round the quadrant ; and at the time when my eyes were fixed upon the ftar , came fo near as to bite a part of my cotton cloth which I had fpread like a carpet to kneel on . Even when I ftirred , it would leap ...
... feveral times round and round the quadrant ; and at the time when my eyes were fixed upon the ftar , came fo near as to bite a part of my cotton cloth which I had fpread like a carpet to kneel on . Even when I ftirred , it would leap ...
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Page 441 - By this wise prejudice we are taught to look with horror on those children of their country who are prompt rashly to hack that aged parent in pieces, and put him into the kettle of magicians, in hopes that, by their poisonous weeds and wild incantations, they may regenerate the paternal constitution, and renovate their father's life.
Page 357 - And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this: is not this the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives?
Page 441 - ... approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.
Page 440 - By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.
Page 39 - ... in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind of...
Page 36 - Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah, made all that the LORD commanded Moses. 23 And with him was Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver, and a cunning workman, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and fine linen.
Page 442 - For those purposes they think some part of the wealth of the country is as usefully employed, as it can be in fomenting the luxury of individuals. It is the public ornament. It is the public consolation. It nourishes the public hope. The poorest man finds his own importance and dignity in it...
Page 325 - I have, to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men...
Page 125 - As soon as this plague appears, and their buzzing is heard, all the cattle forsake their food, and run wildly about the plain, till they die, worn out with fatigue, fright, and hunger.
Page 477 - Christ ; and see that you never cease your labour, your care and diligence, until you have done all that lieth in you, according to your bounden duty, to bring all such as are or shall be committed to your charge, unto that agreement in the faith and knowledge of God, and to that ripeness and perfectness of age in Christ, that there be no place left among you, either for error in religion, or for viciousness in life.