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He would retire to his beloved Grandison-hall, and em-ploy himself in distributing, as objects offered, at least a thousand pounds of the three thousand be-queathed to charitable uses by his late friend Mr. Danby.
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But the Bush administration also be-queathed to the Clinton policymakers conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and in Somalia, and in their joint account of the foreign policy of the Bush years, the President and his national secu-rity adviser, astonishingly, do not mention the US record of failure in either country.
New World Disorder Chace, James 1998
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But the Enlighten - ment, notably in the teachings of Jean Jacques Rous - seau, had its own sentimentality, which it also be - queathed to the nineteenth century.
HEALTH AND DISEASE OWSEI TEMKIN 1968
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Bonald added a new dimension to the social analysis be - queathed by Montesquieu and the Enlightenment — some would say that it was he who discovered the
Dictionary of the History of Ideas WALTER SIMON 1968
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By his said will, he confirmed all his family settlements; be - queathed ten pounds to the poor of Hillsborough, and two pounds to those of the parish where he should die, which happened at Chelsea, in the aforesaid county ot IVliddlesex,
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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The legacy which he he« queathed ber, was not more than might he one to one whom he had never degraded by paying wages.
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Forging laft will, and making no mention of a legacy be - queathed to plaintifF, Ibid, 385.
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Rev.J. Harvard of charlestown, who died this year, having be - queathed to the school at new - town, now Cambridge, £779 17 2. it receives his name.
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Michael Aiigeltis, or Comnenus, the firft of his dynafty,. had be - queathed the fucce/fion of his power and am
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1788
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School, Mr. JVilliams, in his laft will, gencroufly be queathed a confiderabie quantity of lands, and the intcreft of ivciz bonds and notes for that charicablc pursofe. —
A pocket almanack, for the year ... : calculated for the use of the state of Massachusetts-Bay 1779
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