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After my father was nifter, my mother moved the family to Warsaw.
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Get us something to eat an 'something to drink, old woman; give the girl a nifter, too.
The Daughter of Anderson Crow George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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Unwilling to clofe my difpatchcs by her, without Being able to communicate fomething of a more definite and fatif - faclory chara6ter than any thing which had liitherto tranfpircd, J immediately called at the office of foreign relations; but the Mi - nifter being at St. Cloud, I was obhged to poftpone the interview which I fought, until the Tuefday following.
Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Admiralty; commencing with the judgments of the Right Hon. Sir William Scott, Easter term 1808 [-1812] Edwards, Thomas, 1775?-1845, reporter 1812
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* Dr. Pna's Preface to the 4th edition of his Treatife on JHeveifionary Payments, three t 45 J three years, he would have retraced, or at leafl he would have moderated a part of this cen - fure; for Lord North no longer enjoys the diftindion of being the moft extravagant mi '- nifter that has ever afflided this country.
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Before that period, the cure of the former was ferved by the mi* nifter of St Fergus.
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When, however, the mi - nifter refledled that, whilft the taxes conti* nued to be farmed, the people muft be fubjeft to oppreflion, in the year 17 14, he put the whole revenue in adminiftration; but, at the end of two years, he reluctantly confented to renew the farms.
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The bargain was, thus made more advantageous for the public; but how far this tranfadlioii was agreeable to juftice it was for the mi - nifter of the finance to fay.
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AHonifliment held them mute; but no fboner had ApoUinaris begun to read the tome of St. Leo, than a volley of curfes, and invedlives, and ftones, affaulted the odious mi -. nifter of the emperor and the fynod.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1788
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Ifed Bey, Superintendant of the Mint, was a particular favourite of his maflcr, without exciting either jealoufy or hatred; prudent enough not to afpire to be Mi - nifter, he made ufe of his credit only to moderate the frequent ill humour of the Grand Signior towards his Minifters, and dedicated all his attention to the in -, digent and unfortunate, whom he daily affifted,.
Memories of the Baron de Tott, on the Turks and the Tartars 1785
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Quare, habita cum langio deliberatione, Comi - tiis apud IVormatiam habendis diem 6. lanuarii anni MDXXI. indixit; in quibus Matthaus quo» que nofter emicuit, haud dubie praecipuus earum rerum, quae contra Lutherum aftae fuerunt, admi* nifter.
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