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The perjury of the witneffes appeared immediately after; and the kino - keined to regret the execution of Corniili.
The history of England : from the invasion iof Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688 ... 1796
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You may think that you carry the day, and carry all before you, when you. get the minillcrsand people of God oppreffed; the witneffes killed; pallors fet to the door; and people fet to the field: but yet a little while, and Zion will be a burdenfome Hone to her ene - mies; they that fall under the weight of it, fhall be grind - ed to powder; for,.
Sermons and Other Practical Works: Consisting of Above One Hundred and Fifty Sermons Besides His ... 1796
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Witnefling faints at prefent alfo, fo far as they are faith - ful witneffes for God, will be powerful wreillers with him that fhall prevail, and thro 'God do valiantly.
Sermons and Other Practical Works: Consisting of Above One Hundred and Fifty Sermons Besides His ... 1796
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The prejudices of jurymen, as they might be conjectured to arife from the nature of their employments, declarations, and dependencies, demanded fevere inquiry; and the charslflers, connec - tiqnsj and vices of fome of the witneffes, an inquiry perhaps ftill more painful, more dilgufting, more fevere.
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Angels in par - ticular, are witneffes of the proceedings of Providence towards mankind, and thence learn the perfections of God, and the max - ims of his government.
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LE-CRASS, Ed ward* — This gentleman was lieutenant of - the Rupert in I743r»4 at the. time of the encounter with the French and Spanifh fleets off Toulon, and was one of the. witneffes examined on fome of the trials which taokpiaceinconfequencGof'it,.
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And I, having the fame day occafion to fpeak with Mr. Jufticc Fortefcue Alandy mentioned tliis to him, who faid, it was the common practice, and that he had twice or thrice ruled it lb upon evidence on the circuit; and that it is fufficient, if one of the three fubfcribing witneffes fwears the teftator acknowledged the Hgning to be his own hand-writing.
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of Some Special Cases ... William Peere Williams 1793
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He prohibited the inhuman pradicc of pillaging the goods and perfons of iliipwrcpked mariners; the provinces, fo long the objeds of oppreffioii ornegled, revived in prot perity and plenty; and millions applauded the diftant bleffings of his reign, while he was curfed by the witneffes of his daily cruelties.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1788
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Five hundred concurring witneffes are fufficient to eftabliih the credit of a fadt, which they all faw with their own eyes, if their word may be depended upon.
Messiah: Fifty Expository Discourses, on the Series of Scriptural Passages, which Form the ... 1786
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It appeared in the examination of thofe witneffes who fupported this petition, that the fifhery from Britain to Newfoundland, employed about. four hundred Ihips, amounting to three hundred and - fixty thoufand tons, and two thoufand Ihallops of twenty thoufand, navigated by twenty thoufand feamen.
History of the War with America, France, Spain, and Holland: Commencing in ... 1785
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