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Secrets in manufactures are capable of being longer kept than fecrets in trade.

The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812

Thefe fcenes are fo many and diverfified, that before I could enumerate them all, I muft vifit many dark abodes of forrow, to which at pre - fent I am a total ftranger; and muft have revealed to me the fecrets of many defponding hearts, to which no mortal has yet had accefs.

Sermons on practical subjects Worthington, Hugh 1796

If this principle fliould fail (and from f'uch authority I do not conceive how it is to be prefumed,) I flatter myielf that philoiophy is capable of fupplying the place in the appropriation of iome one of the fecrets with which me - chanics abound.

An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829. cn 1796

It is not faid that he told them anj fecrets, or affifted them by intelligence, or any other aft.

The Lives of the English Poets: and a criticism on their works 1795

Trufl not him with your fecrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Aphorisms on man Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825 1794

Do not pump for his fecrets, but ftay till he tells you them; nor offer him your aidvice unaQced; nor repeat any thing of what pafles between you, relating to family, or ftate-afFairs j nor hoafl: of your intimacy with him; nor ftiew yourfelf ready to fneak and cringe, 'or to make the enemy of mankind a prefent of your foul to oblige your patron.

The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, a Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for ... 1794

Peter was griev'd at this, and thus appeal'd To him, from whom no fecrets can be hid ':

The Process and Empire of Christ: From His Birth to the End of the Mediatorial Kingdom; a Poem ... Elhanan Winchester 1793

Would change eflates with me, could they but read The fecrets of my heart; feme monftrous doom.

The Poetical Works of William Preston 1793

M'l The cabinet fecrets of monfieur Necker, Mr. Pitt, or count Florida Blanca, could not more agreeably have been carried on, than the plan of my excurfion: and in the morning, bid - ding f'lrewel to my amiable counfellor, fet off towards Heires, that lies to the eaftuard near eleven miles from Toulon.

Voyages and travels of a sea officer [microform] Vernon, Francis V 1792

He went from one obfervation to another, con - tinually multiplied experiments, reafoned only from them, and fought out all the fecrets of nature.

The spirit of general history : in a series of lectures, from the eighth, to the eighteenth century : wherein is given a view of the progress of society, in manners and legislation during that period Thomson, George, Rev., fl. 1791-2 1792