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... from the verb onleran , dimitto , I difmifs , or fend away . Let any fentence be examined where it occurs , and it always bears this meaning , Less Lefs and elfe come from the fame common root [ 8 Horne Tooke's Diversions of Purley.
... from the verb onleran , dimitto , I difmifs , or fend away . Let any fentence be examined where it occurs , and it always bears this meaning , Less Lefs and elfe come from the fame common root [ 8 Horne Tooke's Diversions of Purley.
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... less need of comment ; but as they frequently allude to facts which no longer exift , notes become now indifpenfibly neceffary . ' This part of the work has been the more difficult to execute , because the paffages that most require ...
... less need of comment ; but as they frequently allude to facts which no longer exift , notes become now indifpenfibly neceffary . ' This part of the work has been the more difficult to execute , because the paffages that most require ...
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... less than the fubtenfe of the angle here men- tioned . Yet the distances between luminous bodies is not visible when that distance fubtends a fmall angle , witnefs Dr. Herfchel's obfervations on double ftars , & c . the angular diftance ...
... less than the fubtenfe of the angle here men- tioned . Yet the distances between luminous bodies is not visible when that distance fubtends a fmall angle , witnefs Dr. Herfchel's obfervations on double ftars , & c . the angular diftance ...
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... less abundant , and alfo not to be li- mited to any regular time of publication ; but now , we think , the numbers are pretty uniform , and that the time of publication is alfo tolerably regular . Mr. Young appears here in two ...
... less abundant , and alfo not to be li- mited to any regular time of publication ; but now , we think , the numbers are pretty uniform , and that the time of publication is alfo tolerably regular . Mr. Young appears here in two ...
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... less is faid , the better ; but to Sheridan greater attention is given , and ample tribute is paid to forare and fo matchlefs a combination of talents . There , a temperate and a winning elocution , fui- tained by claffic elegance ...
... less is faid , the better ; but to Sheridan greater attention is given , and ample tribute is paid to forare and fo matchlefs a combination of talents . There , a temperate and a winning elocution , fui- tained by claffic elegance ...
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