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May we not afcribe to fo honourable and generous a motive the exertion of her perfonal influence in his fiivor?
memoirs of the right honourable edmund burke charles m'cormick 1798
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An acquaintance whifpered our traveller to retire, as it was not unufual to afcribe the fail - ure of the miracle to the prefence of heretics; and that the populace might, in confequence, be led to an infult.
Historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries, from the time of ... 1797
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The degrees or extent wherein we afcribe exiftence, power, wifdom, and all other perfedions
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As. Lord Somers*s pieces were amonymous, we no longer know what to afcribe to him; and one cannot help making
A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England: With Lists of Their Works 1796
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Notwithltanding the ill-fuccefs of the late expedition, fo little open to cenfure was the con - duft of admiral Killegrew, fo impoffible was it to afcribe any part of its failure to his behaviour or management, that he was, immediately afterwards, appointed One of the joint-admirals with fir R. Haddock and fir J. Afliby, to command the fleet in the abfenceof theearl of Torrington.
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Their opinion, however, who afcribe many worki 'to Hefidd, is very different froni this.
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Let us then, Sir, confider what thofe pre - texts are, by which you labour to afcribe to infa - nity or profligacy in 1792, that attempt to re - form, which in 17S2 was the pureft exertion of the moft heroic patriotifm.
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Hence it was plaufible to afcribe the con - tentious oppofition, of which the king complained, to an avcrlion for his minifters, and to reprefent to him, that if he could be pre -
The history of political transactions, and of parties, from the restoration of King Charles the Second, to the death of King William Somerville, Thomas, 1741-1830 1792
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Pen£U&jQW.s. was forme d by Neptun e, Who - ever fuppofes that Neptune caufes earthquakes, and that the confequent chafms are the work of that deity, may on viewing this fpot eafily afcribe it to his power: to me, the feparation of thefe moun - tains appears to have been the eiFect of an earth - quake ''. cxxx.
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& Syr. with 4 MSS. afcribe this pfalm to David, and
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