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... fear the Critic will think I have transfused the Barbarity , Brevity , and Obscurity into my own English ) and lay before my Reader , who will at once see and ac- knowledge their Utility . A learned Performance , by a Doctor Moresin in ...
... fear the Critic will think I have transfused the Barbarity , Brevity , and Obscurity into my own English ) and lay before my Reader , who will at once see and ac- knowledge their Utility . A learned Performance , by a Doctor Moresin in ...
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... of some , and the Censures of others , Ineither fear nor regard them . I shall be always ready to own any Mistake , and in what I justly may , to vindicate myself . CONTENTS OF THR ANTIQUITATES VULGARES . CHAP I. Of the Soul PREFACE .
... of some , and the Censures of others , Ineither fear nor regard them . I shall be always ready to own any Mistake , and in what I justly may , to vindicate myself . CONTENTS OF THR ANTIQUITATES VULGARES . CHAP I. Of the Soul PREFACE .
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... Fear ; that there is nothing in them now , more than in other Places to be afraid of . 83 CHAP VIII . Of visiting Wells and Fountains : The Original of this Custom : The naming of them of great Antiquity : The Worship paid them by the ...
... Fear ; that there is nothing in them now , more than in other Places to be afraid of . 83 CHAP VIII . Of visiting Wells and Fountains : The Original of this Custom : The naming of them of great Antiquity : The Worship paid them by the ...
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... sake thou didst suffer Death , from " all Evil and Mischief , from the Crafts and " Assaults of the Devil , from the Fear of " Death , and from everlasting Death , Amen , 66 66 III . LORD , impute not unto him 7 III . 10 ANTIQUITIES OF.
... sake thou didst suffer Death , from " all Evil and Mischief , from the Crafts and " Assaults of the Devil , from the Fear of " Death , and from everlasting Death , Amen , 66 66 III . LORD , impute not unto him 7 III . 10 ANTIQUITIES OF.
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... Fears , than People without them , would generally have of these Things ; but I cannot help thinking , that the Presence of Night , would naturally lead a Man to some Reflection of Spirits , without any such Cause as that learned Author ...
... Fears , than People without them , would generally have of these Things ; but I cannot help thinking , that the Presence of Night , would naturally lead a Man to some Reflection of Spirits , without any such Cause as that learned Author ...
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