The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, Volume 38R. Baldwin, 1769 - English essays |
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... fince Clovis the first fuc- ceeded alone to his father Childeric , in prejudice of his two fifters , Alboflede and Lantilde . In the reign of Philip of Valois , there rofe a new conteft upon the fame fubject : The decifion was likewife ...
... fince Clovis the first fuc- ceeded alone to his father Childeric , in prejudice of his two fifters , Alboflede and Lantilde . In the reign of Philip of Valois , there rofe a new conteft upon the fame fubject : The decifion was likewife ...
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... fince fuch are the fruits of borough job- bing , —I might fafely have depended on your countenance and approbation whilft I endeavoured to expofe it's infa- my -- in my first letter .--- And I hoped I might presume on favourable allow ...
... fince fuch are the fruits of borough job- bing , —I might fafely have depended on your countenance and approbation whilft I endeavoured to expofe it's infa- my -- in my first letter .--- And I hoped I might presume on favourable allow ...
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... fince done , if your questions had not drawn me off to fhew the equity or probability of it . As I find you are determined to de- fend your notion inch by inch , I fhall call in fome help and attack you with an obfervation of a very ...
... fince done , if your questions had not drawn me off to fhew the equity or probability of it . As I find you are determined to de- fend your notion inch by inch , I fhall call in fome help and attack you with an obfervation of a very ...
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... fince the taking place of the union of ftate and church , from Conftantine down to this very day . And this was the language , which the late Archbishop of Canterbury , Dr. Jan. Thomas Secker , held [ conftantly held ] on all occafions ...
... fince the taking place of the union of ftate and church , from Conftantine down to this very day . And this was the language , which the late Archbishop of Canterbury , Dr. Jan. Thomas Secker , held [ conftantly held ] on all occafions ...
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... fince practifers are con- fined ( for the fake of the ftamp du- ties , which are thereby confiderably increased ) to write only a stated num- ber of words in a fheet ; and as the English language , through the multi- tude of its ...
... fince practifers are con- fined ( for the fake of the ftamp du- ties , which are thereby confiderably increased ) to write only a stated num- ber of words in a fheet ; and as the English language , through the multi- tude of its ...
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