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But after all, _Madam_, Whether this is such a Scheme as can ever be reduc'd in Practice; whether so _noble a Structure_ as I am speaking of, can be erected upon so _rotten_ a _Foundation_; whether the _Wound_ is not _Gangreen'd_, and must be cur'd by _Excision_; I say, whether such a
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Small Authors thus strut forth, and thus get cur'd;
Poetic Sketches Thomas Gent
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The _Wine_ is _strong_, but never rightly _cur'd_.
Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry (1700) and the Essay on Heroic Poetry (second edition, 1697) Samuel Wesley
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Having languish'd under this for some months, he seem'd to be pretty well cur'd of its ill Symptomes.
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various
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I need not tell you the sorrow our parting gave me, in vain Philosophy cried aloud nature was still stronger and the philosopher was forced to yield to the friend, even now I feel the wound is not cur'd.
Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918
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I need not tell you the sorrow our parting gave me, in vain Philosophy cried aloud nature was still stronger and the philosopher was forced to yield to the friend, even now I feel the wound is not cur'd.
Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914
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Once old Shooba cur'd me of a pestilent Fever, with Simples, when I was a little Child, and our Leech had given me Over, nor did he Bleed me once.
A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905
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'As where (before) we were abus'd with diuerse stolne and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealthes of incurious impostors that expos'd them: even those are now offer'd to your view cur'd and perfect in their limbes, and all the rest absolute in their numbers as he conceived them.'
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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Compass that it effectually cur'd those hollow Undulations of the Voice formerly complain'd of.
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889
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Aunt Green gave me a plaister for my fingure that has near cur'd it, but I have a new boil, which is under poultice, & tomorrow I am to undergo another seasoning with globe Salt.
Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 Anna Green Winslow 1881
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