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The Proprietors, 1795
 

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Сторінка 376 - He enjoyed an uncommon share of health, insomuch that in the course of his long life he never was confined more than three days to his bed. He often declared that he had no idea of that most distressing pain called the headach.
Сторінка 166 - I renounce and refuse, as things written with my hand, contrary to the truth which I thought in my heart, and written for fear of death, and to save my life, if it might be...
Сторінка 13 - Clive was complimented by his friends on his behaviour on this occasion, he made the following remark : " The man has given me my life, and I have no right in future to mention his behaviour at the card-table; although I will never pay him, nor ever keep him company.
Сторінка 65 - By degrees I gained his confidence ; and one day was admitted to him when he was immured by a bailiff, that was prowling in the street. On this occasion recourse was had to the booksellers, who, on the credit of a translation of Aristotle's Poetics...
Сторінка 279 - The original Power of the Collective Body of the People of England examined and asserted...
Сторінка 388 - Cheapside, and to be left there till further orders. In the mean time the Abbey was lighted up, the ground opened, the choir attending, and the bishop waiting some hours to no purpose for the corpse.
Сторінка 129 - Corneille, whofe brother he was. He was a member of the French academy, and of the academy of Infcriptions. He difcovered, when he was young, a...
Сторінка 73 - Common-prayer:" as, i. A Scholaftical Hiftory of the primitive and general Ufe of Liturgies in the Chriftian Church ; together with an Anfwer to Mr. David Clarkfon's late Difcourfe concerning Liturgies, 1690; dedicated to king William and queen Mary. 2. A Companion to the Temple; or, A Help to Devotion in the Ufe of the...
Сторінка 143 - 'The Argument made by the Command of the Houfe of Commons, out of the Acts of Parliament and Authority of Law expounding the fame, at a Conference with the Lords, concerning the Liberty of the Perfon of every Freeman." 4. " A Brief Difcourfe concerning the Power of the Peers and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature.
Сторінка 264 - A Poem expreffing the Antiquity and Excellency of Dancing, in a Dialogue between Penelope and one of her Wooers ;

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