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... feet deep . The entrance too in 1743 was sixty feet deep , but now only eighteen . The evil is well known , and would be easy to find a remedy for it ; but that species of persevering firmness is the very thing wherein both the public ...
... feet deep . The entrance too in 1743 was sixty feet deep , but now only eighteen . The evil is well known , and would be easy to find a remedy for it ; but that species of persevering firmness is the very thing wherein both the public ...
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... feet , and about four inches in the circumference of their stalk ; but , being a very wet and cold summer , they produced no seed : so ended all my hopes of Chinese hemp . Sir Joseph Banks had some of this seed brought him from China ...
... feet , and about four inches in the circumference of their stalk ; but , being a very wet and cold summer , they produced no seed : so ended all my hopes of Chinese hemp . Sir Joseph Banks had some of this seed brought him from China ...
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... feet . Mount Carmel , Mount Hermon , Nain , Endor , Mountains of Samaria : the whole of Galilee , Capernaum , Nazareth , Tibe- rias , and Mount Lebanon , ( like Ben Lomond , in Scotland , ) majestically in the back - ground . In the ...
... feet . Mount Carmel , Mount Hermon , Nain , Endor , Mountains of Samaria : the whole of Galilee , Capernaum , Nazareth , Tibe- rias , and Mount Lebanon , ( like Ben Lomond , in Scotland , ) majestically in the back - ground . In the ...
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... feet in height and six feet in dia- meter . Nothing can be more august than the view of the entrance . The front is com- posed of eight Corinthian pillars , and within these , at the distance of six feet , are four others ' similar ...
... feet in height and six feet in dia- meter . Nothing can be more august than the view of the entrance . The front is com- posed of eight Corinthian pillars , and within these , at the distance of six feet , are four others ' similar ...
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... feet deep ; and , in a sub- terranean chamber a little to the south , at the bottom of the well , was found , without a lid , a plain but highly - finished sarcophagus ; and from this it may be inferred that , in each mausoleum , such a ...
... feet deep ; and , in a sub- terranean chamber a little to the south , at the bottom of the well , was found , without a lid , a plain but highly - finished sarcophagus ; and from this it may be inferred that , in each mausoleum , such a ...
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Page 294 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Page 294 - The school-boy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...
Page 294 - Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory ; — taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste— taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion — taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth...
Page 448 - The Life of Wesley and the Rise and Progress of Methodism, by Robert Southey, esq. Poet Laureate...
Page 294 - ... that restores him to health; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride; at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Page 57 - Our sovereign lord the king chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of king George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God save the king.
Page 467 - That the maxim of buying in the cheapest market, and selling in the dearest, which regulates every merchant in his individual dealings, is strictly applicable as the best rule for the trade of the whole nation.
Page 83 - In the civil war existing between Spain and the Spanish provinces in this hemisphere, the greatest care has been taken to enforce the laws intended to preserve an impartial neutrality. Our ports have continued to be equally open to both parties, and on the same conditions ; and our citizens have been equally restrained from interfering in favor of either to the prejudice of the other.
Page 467 - ... against foreign competition, is set up as a ground of claim by other branches for similar protection ; so that if the reasoning upon which these restrictive or prohibitory regulations are founded were followed out consistently, it would not stop short of excluding us from all foreign commerce whatsoever.
Page 57 - ... by this act to make the said proclamation shall, among the said rioters, or as near to them as he can safely come, with a loud voice command, or cause to be commanded silence to be, while proclamation is...