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... Means of making Bread from Rice alone , [ 144 ] [ 146 ] POE T R Y. Ode for the New Year , by Henry James Pye , Efq . [ 148 ] The Influence of poetical Perfonifications and Allegorics on Imitative Art and Moral Happiness and the Effect ...
... Means of making Bread from Rice alone , [ 144 ] [ 146 ] POE T R Y. Ode for the New Year , by Henry James Pye , Efq . [ 148 ] The Influence of poetical Perfonifications and Allegorics on Imitative Art and Moral Happiness and the Effect ...
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... means the huge volumes of the law would come to be reduced into the bignefs of a pocket - book , as it is proportionably in New England ; a thing of fo great worth and benefit as England is not yet worthy of , nor likely in a fhort time ...
... means the huge volumes of the law would come to be reduced into the bignefs of a pocket - book , as it is proportionably in New England ; a thing of fo great worth and benefit as England is not yet worthy of , nor likely in a fhort time ...
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... means diffimilar to those of the prefent day . He doubted not but their lordships would agree with him in the neceffity there was of applying a fpeedy remedy to thefe dangerous practices , which had proceeded fo far as to endanger the ...
... means diffimilar to those of the prefent day . He doubted not but their lordships would agree with him in the neceffity there was of applying a fpeedy remedy to thefe dangerous practices , which had proceeded fo far as to endanger the ...
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... means of tickets ; and they must not amount to a number beyond a cer- tain one which the minifter fhould be pleased to infert in his bill , un- lefs duly licensed by a magiftrate . He would ask again - Was this , or was it not , to ...
... means of tickets ; and they must not amount to a number beyond a cer- tain one which the minifter fhould be pleased to infert in his bill , un- lefs duly licensed by a magiftrate . He would ask again - Was this , or was it not , to ...
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... means of legally reftoring their po- litical rights ? There was not the flighteft fymptom , or the most diftant hint infinuated , that those mean and defpicable persons who infulted his majesty on the first day of the feffions , had ...
... means of legally reftoring their po- litical rights ? There was not the flighteft fymptom , or the most diftant hint infinuated , that those mean and defpicable persons who infulted his majesty on the first day of the feffions , had ...
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