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Whence it is that in our law the goodnefs of a cuftom depends upon it's having been ufed time out of mind; or, in the folemnity of our legal phrafe, time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
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If lead is, in the phrafe of the chemills, urged with a more violent and fuddcn heat, the appearances which it exhilrits are different.
The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated: On the Principles of Modern Philosophy. By G ... 1798
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# The account given in the para - meant Rome itfelf, which is now but a phrafe of the tenth part of the city, and tenth part of what it was at the time of feven thovfand men, as meaning a con - this prophecy.
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So much for the import of this phrafe, Compel them to come in*
Sermons and Other Practical Works: Consisting of Above One Hundred and Fifty Sermons Besides His ... 1796
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His confeffion, however, was not ne - cefTary, as wc were fufficiently convinced of his not being 'a farmcr | s fon/in the general fenfe of the phrafe, before we reached this pallage.
The Monthly Review 1796
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A phrafe uken'Ctv-d her; for indeed he was mad for her, and talk'd of Satan, and of limbo, and of furies, and I know not wliat; yet 1 was in that credit with them at that time, that I knew of their going to bed, and of other motions, as prbmifing her marriage, and things that would derive me ill-vrill ta fpeak of; therefore I will not fpeak what 1 know.
Works 1795
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However, tlie proteft, though not reiid, had it's effeft; for although the bill before-tnentioned, or, as the Scot - tifti phrafe is, the article, had the confent of parliament, yet the king thought fit to caufe it to be iaid afide; and not long after called a general aifembly at St. Andrew's.
A New and General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an ... Account of the ... 1795
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He forbore to call evidence againft me; which, according to the phrafe, was very honour - able in him indeed; for he had none to call.
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Jacob, upon his death-bed, foretold his fons what ihould befal thern in the lall davs; the meaning of that phrafe, p. 66, 67.
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By this good day, I know not the phrafe: but I will maintain the word with my
The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections and Illustrations of ... 1793
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