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We have none; unlefs you call the falfe pretences to it fi-ch, fuggefted by an enthufiaflic or diflempered fancy.
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They likewife made ibme canons, annulling all the proceedings of Burdinus, and threatening excommunication againit thofe who fhould break the truce of God, coin falfe mo - ney, or attack the city of Benevento.
The modern part of an universal history from the earliest accounts to the present time; 1782
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When they put together limple ideas, which in tiie real exift - ence of things have no union; as when to the fliape and fize that exift together in a horfe is joined, in the fame complex idea, the. power of barking like a dog: which three ideas, however put together into one in the mind, were never united in nature; and this there - fore may be called a falfe idea of an horfe.
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Havmg therefore inquired of the natives which way the people had fled, we followed them till at was near dark, when judging ourfelves to be about three miles from the tents, and fufpe£ting that the natives, who frequently encouraged us in the purfuit, were amufing us with falfe information, we thought it in vain to continue our fearch any longer, and returned to the beach.
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During & U this time the parafites of oppofuion do not fail bf cunning farcafm orlly inuendo to throw out the idea of French influence, which is known ta be falfe, which ought to be met in ont manner only, and that is by the lie dir*-3.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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However true or falfe our conjedures may be, things went on in their ufual quiet courfe till the afternoon of the 13th.
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And it is this falfe idea which has often brought attention to the beauties of writing into difrepute.
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It was rejefled by the, cabinet — No confideration of the falfe allegation on which the war in fafl was founded; no confideration of the critical and extremely co»fequentialnature to both nations of the fubjeft of mp reflment; no corifiderations of humanity, interpefcd their I
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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Unlefs then a rule, which is in itfelf moft tyrannical and oppreffive, is to be ap - applied to thisclafs, I may fafely conclude that the three clafses are in principle fubftantially the fame, and that unlets we are falfe to our own principles, if we remit in one cafe we ftiall remit in all. v m »
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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Dr. Johnson, under the influence of his old tory prejudices, endeavoured to juftify the condudl of the mi - fiiftry and of their corrupt majorities, and to make us believe that the popular alarm was falfe.
memoirs of the right honourable edmund burke charles m'cormick 1798
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