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I had in December a fevere attack, and two or three slight ones in the course of twelve months; but the improvement in the general state of my health induced me to persevere.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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If aggravating circumftances occur, the king gives diredions for a more fevere puniffiment; the cri - minal is then bound to a tree, and he is pricked full of ikin-deep wounds with krifles, and rubbed with fugar or molafles; the whole body is foon entirely covered with ants, and the poor wretch is not relieved by death before he has fuffered the greateft torments.
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Logical and ethical difquifitions move in a higher fphere, and are converfant with objects of a more fevere kind; the progrefs of the under - ftanding in its fearch after knowledge, and the dire6tion of the will in the proper purfuit of good.
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Mr. W's fevere reflections on the Reformed Churches.
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This fevere education inur him to fatigue and hardihip, for the exercife which he had no little occafion during his f ture life, in the long wars with Henr 'III. ai the dukeof Mayenne.
Historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries, from the time of ... 1797
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The winter fet in this year much fooner than ufual, and the weather was ftormy and fevere.
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It was taken by the French in 1781; and, in 1783, it itood a fevere fiege againft the Euglilh, which was ended by the intelligence received of the peace.
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■ Work, that the dread of fevere pitnifhmeni, in the manner the Law is executed at prefent, has not the leaft.
A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and ... Patrick Colquhoun 1797
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Some of them driven by hunger attempted Maflachu - their way, in this fevere feafon, through the wildernefs, fetf - the from Conne£licut to Maflachufetts.
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The men got on lliore, and after wandering ten days in deep fnow and a fevere feafon, without meeting any human being, ar - rived, nearly fpent with cold and fatigue, at New-Plim - outh.
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