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... John Sin- clair . Thoufands have done the fame in a fimilar ftate of ignorance , fome from benevolence , fome from view of gain , and others on the principle of felf - prefervation . I may predict alfo , from the former motives , that ...
... John Sin- clair . Thoufands have done the fame in a fimilar ftate of ignorance , fome from benevolence , fome from view of gain , and others on the principle of felf - prefervation . I may predict alfo , from the former motives , that ...
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... John M Pherfon and lord Cornwallis , and perfevered in by the prefent governor - general t will diffufe the fmiles of profperity and happinets over the best provinces of Hindooftan , long after the difcordant voice of party shall have ...
... John M Pherfon and lord Cornwallis , and perfevered in by the prefent governor - general t will diffufe the fmiles of profperity and happinets over the best provinces of Hindooftan , long after the difcordant voice of party shall have ...
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... JOHN DE. trait in his character , and though it helped him through many hair - breadth ' fcapes , yet how a young mind , agi- tated as his must have been , could at- tempt to face thote he fo injured and fo duped , is truly aftonishing ...
... JOHN DE. trait in his character , and though it helped him through many hair - breadth ' fcapes , yet how a young mind , agi- tated as his must have been , could at- tempt to face thote he fo injured and fo duped , is truly aftonishing ...
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... made . Of the east and weft ridings we fhall give an account , when the maps of thofe divifions appear , which will be in the course of this volume . The following Letter , preferved by fir John Fenn , 50 THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE.
... made . Of the east and weft ridings we fhall give an account , when the maps of thofe divifions appear , which will be in the course of this volume . The following Letter , preferved by fir John Fenn , 50 THE UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE.
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A Curious , but Instructive LETTER , from JOHN DE LA POLE , Duke of Suffolk , to his Son . METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL , June 1796 . REMARKS on the State. The following Letter , preferved by fir John Fenn , in his very curious Collection of ...
A Curious , but Instructive LETTER , from JOHN DE LA POLE , Duke of Suffolk , to his Son . METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL , June 1796 . REMARKS on the State. The following Letter , preferved by fir John Fenn , in his very curious Collection of ...
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Page 80 - How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that? And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
Page 352 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct: and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
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Page 349 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.
Page 78 - Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops. Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
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