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Out of my fight, thou Serpent j that name beft Befits thee with him leagued, thyfelf as falfe And hateful j nothing wants, but that thy fhape,
The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779
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Let fuch gentlemen recur to their beft experience, on firniiar occasions.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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The maha poetey, or beft fort, at i rix-dollar per lb.
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But this being at beft but a probable cpnjefiure, I ihall iniift no farther upon It. The 14th we paffed by Scouten's Ifland, and Providence Ifland, and found ftill a very ftrong current fetting to the north-weft.
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They found tliem at their habitations, all drefied and drefling in their very beft, with their hair combed and oiled, tied up upon the crowns of tneir heads, and ftuck with white feathers*
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The general alfo provided to meet him in the beft manner, and therefore ddlred Captain Swan with his men to attend him.
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This account explains at once all the myfteries which the beft writers upon this fubjeft have found in the Dutch pro - ceedings.
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As, however, Valentyn has been very ample in his account of this province, for which he had the beft opportunities, as he refided in it for feveral years, and, as his work is to be met with in moft libraries *, I fhall confine myfelf to fome fhort remarks, and to fome particulars which I thought worthy of obfervation, and committed to paper while I was there.
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Of all the coaft of Diemen's Land and of the adjacent iflands this is afluredly the beft watered, and confequently, the moft interefting to navigators; it is perhaps the only one where at all felons one or more fliips may depend on readily obtaining a fup - ply of water.
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- Page 512Appears in 121 books from 1755-2007Whate'er is beft adminifter'd is beft: For Modes of Faith let gracelefs zealots fight; His can't be wrong whofe life is in the right ...
The Antijacobin review; and protestant advocate: or, monthly political and literary censor 1798
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