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... Lord Dungarvan , 338 Trial of Lowe and Jobbins , 333 Urquhart's Tranflat . of the Odes 579 112 Walker on the Small - pox , Wallace , Sir William , Acts and Deeds of , Warner's Hampshire , Waterford , Bp . of , his Attempt toward an ...
... Lord Dungarvan , 338 Trial of Lowe and Jobbins , 333 Urquhart's Tranflat . of the Odes 579 112 Walker on the Small - pox , Wallace , Sir William , Acts and Deeds of , Warner's Hampshire , Waterford , Bp . of , his Attempt toward an ...
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... Lord Protector and the corporation of Newcastle , against the Scots bringing falt into England , which they were able to fell at a lower price than the English could . It is faid to be owing to the lofs of the falt - trade , that fewer ...
... Lord Protector and the corporation of Newcastle , against the Scots bringing falt into England , which they were able to fell at a lower price than the English could . It is faid to be owing to the lofs of the falt - trade , that fewer ...
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... Lord Protector . This university , rather intended to be founded than actually fettled , was foon fuppreffed . It is a fingular fact , that George Fox , the founder of the quakers , who vifited Newcastle a fecond time this year , has ...
... Lord Protector . This university , rather intended to be founded than actually fettled , was foon fuppreffed . It is a fingular fact , that George Fox , the founder of the quakers , who vifited Newcastle a fecond time this year , has ...
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... Lord Mountmorres . Jeffery . 1790 . THA 12mo . PP . 280. 3s . 6d . Boards . " HAT the King of Sweden is a man of letters , we have no reason to doubt ; that nature has been bountiful to him in the gift of abilities , we have been well ...
... Lord Mountmorres . Jeffery . 1790 . THA 12mo . PP . 280. 3s . 6d . Boards . " HAT the King of Sweden is a man of letters , we have no reason to doubt ; that nature has been bountiful to him in the gift of abilities , we have been well ...
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... Lord M.'s tranflation , though we authors are always glad to fee noblemen come among us , yet we wish them , at all times , to appear with a dignity fuitable to their rank . In the prefent inftance , we must take the free- dom to ...
... Lord M.'s tranflation , though we authors are always glad to fee noblemen come among us , yet we wish them , at all times , to appear with a dignity fuitable to their rank . In the prefent inftance , we must take the free- dom to ...
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Page 237 - is almost the only lawful king in the world, because the only one who owes his crown to the choice of his people.
Page 121 - Is a mortal's piety so tremendous to the inferior deities? What was the event ? Anu. In the bloom of the vernal season, Causica, beholding the beauty of the celestial nymph, and wafted by the gale of desire [She stops and looks modest.
Page 189 - ... mechanic powers. The door by which we entered this extraordinary fabric was the mouth of one of these huge images, which, large as it may be supposed, was not disproportioned to the other features of this monstrous visage.
Page 156 - ... than the determination of a meridian line, or the length of the day at the place of his residence. This astronomy, as exhibited in their tables, presents three principal objects : 1. Tables and rules for computing the places of the sun and moon. 2. Tables and rules for calculating the places of the planets. 3. Rules for determining the phases of eclipses. The Indian astronomers, like all others, have distinguished that portion of the heavens in which the motions of the sun, the moon, and planets...
Page 319 - They readily fliowed us the ufe of every thing they had with them. Indeed they always behave with an apparent civility when they fall in with men that are armed ; but when they meet perfons unarmed, they feldom fail to take every advantage of them. Thofe females who were arrived at the age of puberty did not wear a covering ; but all the female children and likewife the girls wore...
Page 28 - Beaumont, a gentleman of great ingenuity and rare parts, adventured into our mines with his thirty thousand pounds ; who brought with him many rare engines not known then in these parts ; as the art to boore with iron rodds, to try the deepnesse and thicknesse of the coale ; rare engines to draw water out of the pits ; waggons with one horse to carry down coales from the pits to the stathes to the river, &c. Within few years he consumed all his money, and...
Page 28 - ... to try the deepnesse and thicknesse of the coale ; rare engines to draw water out of the pits ; waggons with one horse to carry down coales from the pits to the stathes to the river, &c. Within few years he consumed all his money, and rode home upon his light horse.
Page 114 - Discourse on the Love of our Country, Delivered on Nov. 4, 1789, at the Meeting-House in the Old Jewry, to the Society for Commemorating the Revolution in Great Britain; with an Appendix, Containing the Report of the Committee of the Society; an Account of the Population of France; and the Declaration of Rights by the National Assembly of France (London: T.
Page 127 - It is a facred rule, holy fage, that a benevolent man fhould accompany a traveller till he meet with abundance of water ; and that rule you have carefully obferved : we are now near the brink of a large pool. Give us, therefore, your commands, and return. Can. Let us...
Page 318 - reft of the party, the old man followed us in a very friendly manner, and took part of every kind of provifion we had, but he ate none of it in our fight. The women and children flood at...