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And afterwards more foftly calling A perfon not of the befl fame.
The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical 1795
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"If fuch a perfon is their mother?" they immediately reply, with lurprizc, "Yes, the mother that bore mc."
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In this part of India they are delicately framed, their hands J in particular are more like thofe of tender fe - males; and do - not appear to be, what is confidered a proper proportion to the reft of the perfon, which is ufually above the middle fize.
Travels in India during the years 1780, 1781, 1782 and 1783 1783
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CoMjLAiTB) meftiDs the corporal prefenoe of a perfon, which is to be known by jthe five fenlcs
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Michael Gallagher, dated this 10th day of May 1822 and requefting the perfon who should find it, if the book should be loft or go aftray, to reftore it to Michael Gallagher, carpenter, Dufery Gate,
Ulysses 2003
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We were fure, from the ftate of the wound, that he was the perfon who had been fired at by one of the fentinels three days before; though pofitive orders had been given that none of them fhould load their pieces with any thing but fmall fhot ..
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After walkings a little way amongft thefe, we found a perfon who feemed a chief, fitting on the ground crofs-legged, cooling himfelf with a fort of triangular hn made from a leaf of the cocoa-palm.
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When once the perfon is afleep, they abate a little in the ilrength and quicknefs of beating; but refume it, if they obferve any appearance of his awaking.
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He lifted himfelf above the mafs of his countrymen without the claims or the refources of royalty, without any titular difiinftion of name, or any infignia but thofe of merit for his perfon.
Oration on the birth of Washington. Delivered in St. Philip's church, Charleston, (S.C.) on the 22d of February, 1812 Crafts, W. [from old catalog] 1812
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Among the chiefs that - came on board the Refolution, - was a. young man called Pareea, whom we foon perceived to be a perfon of great authority ..
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