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Hitherto the old man I have before fpoken of had preferved the deepeft filence; but, after what had taken place, he addreffed a few words to his countrymen: with* out their feeming to be uttered as an order, they produced fuch effeft that no one afterwards would touch the dynamometer.
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The effeft of the application now made would be, that Mr. Riley fliould fit out 'the fhip, and procure the frdght, and then pay over the profits of his own exertions to the other party.
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Admiralty: Commencing with the ... 1812
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This had fo far the defired effeft, that they had only one man on board that could be called very ill of this difeafe; occafioned chiefly by a bad habit of body, and a complication of other diforders.
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This change of behaviour was certainly occafioned by the man being wounded; for before they had only been told the effeft of fire-arms, but now they had fek it.
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Nay, it is kept up to injure the caufe of the Company, after they have atlually agreed on enlargements of the trade to England, greater than ever were contemplated, even by the pri - vate merchants of India, before the prefent negotiation; and, if enlargements could effeft the objeft, more than fufficient to bring the whole Indian trade of the Americans to the port of London.
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This put them to the expence of a few mufquetoon ball, which had the defired effeft.
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It is affirmed that the hepatic gas pafles through the paper; but it is fufii - ckndy proved that the air carries the gas in this manner from one leaf to another; Hnce the effeft does not take place when the leaves are glued together.
The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated: On the Principles of Modern Philosophy. By G ... 1798
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Qur principles of loyaltv upon thofc; of a parliament whicfi nad recent and ample experience of the effeft of fanguinary laws; and we fhall deliver the declaration in ttie me - morable language of their record —.
The New annual register, or General repository of history, politics, and ... 1797
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It was impofliblc fuch a legiflature as thi = could tion, bifnre they took effeft.
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Although powers in a conveyance to ufes authorize the party to leafe, &c. the inftrument exercifing the power is, in effeft, aii appointment by way of leafe, &c. ..
Tracts on I. The Definition and Nature of Cross Remainder, II. Fines and Recoveries by Tenant in ... 1797
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