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Adverting now to some articles the exact quantity of which is difficult to ascertain, such as slate, oak bark, wood, Irish flax and linens, ashes and some other kinds of American and colonial produce imported into
Report of the Knaresbrough Rail-way Committee Knaresbrough Rail-way Committee
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Adverting to this subject in after life she said with deep gratitude, "I had a good mother and father to keep me in, and restraining grace."
Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York John Lyth
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Adverting to the example of his esteemed friend, Captain Foley, as a native of
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison
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Adverting to the first scene of the second act, when irritated by Lysimachus demanding the princess Parisatis in marriage; in the swell of passion from the mild rebuke,
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
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Adverting to the definition already given of a "conspiracy" -- that its essence is the MERE AGREEMENT to do an illegal act -- it will be plain, that where such an agreement has once been shown to have been entered into, it is totally immaterial whether the illegal act, or the illegal acts, have been _actually done or not_ in pursuance of the conspiracy.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various
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Adverting, for a moment, to the proceedings of Sir Henry
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various
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Adverting to these facts, it is obvious that sufficient time is allowed for the progress of the steam-boats, in every station, under the General Plan now recommended to be adopted, in order to communicate with the different places in the Western
A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World James MacQueen
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Adverting to the spiritual resemblance, he continues that the rose is the flower spoken of by Isaias (xi, 1),
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Adverting to the changes occurring in the world of sensuous phenomena and to the interdependencies thereof, the intellect easily, almost intuitively, discerns that, while the given events are the necessitated consequences of similarly necessitated antecedents, each number of the series, by the very fact of its being thus conditioned, does not contain within itself the adequate ground of its existence.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Adverting to this fact in his last message to the General Assembly he declared:
The Life and Speeches of Charles Brantley Aycock Robert Digges Wimberly 1912
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