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There are feveral other anti - quities, fiich as tumuli, barrows, and fome little hillocks called peft-hiUocks, about which laft the tradition 15 too
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With thefe views, my Lord, deeply impreffed on the minds of the Direftors, acting as they are in a molt refponfible iituation, is it too much for them to ex - peft and to requeit, that they may be honoured with the knowledge of thofe means which His IMajelty's Government may think would be effectual to prevent the practice of fmuggling, under the new circumftances, to any ruinous or great extent?
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It is that chiefly which fecures me from the fear of cenfurc, which I ex - peft not to efcape more than better writers.
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LuBBECKC, or LuTMicXK, a town of 1 for lunatics, a peft - houfe, and 4. others
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I alked him whether L might, go to. a confultation with another lawyer upon Sunday, as that appeared to me to be doing work as much in my way, as if an artifan fhould work on the day appropriated for religious peft.
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ... 1791
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The people, therefore, were authorifed to ex - peft that the retrenchment of fuperfluous ex - pcnccs, and the. prevention of that boundlefs pro - digality of which they had heard fo much, would alone be fufficient to re-eftablifh order in the finances, and at the fame time procure them con - liderablc relief.
Considerations on the Present and Future State of France Charles Alexandre de Calonne 1791
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£ 6 I - leave - ija c E c I X I a. I leave the luDgdom with little reafon to peft l. fhall return to it; I leave it — Oh, blinder nth of vanity and paflion! —
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(Balanc'd with which, the fam'd Athenian peft Were a ihort head-ach, were the trivial pain Of tranfient indigeftion) feiz'd mankind.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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The peft comes whirling down; by far more flow Springs the fwift arrow from the Parthian bow, 1240
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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A Plan of the Englifh Commerce: Being a compleat Prof - peft of the Trade of this Nation, as well the Home Trade as the Foreign.
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: Of York, Mariner. Who Lived Eight ... 1790
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