Encyclopaedia Britannica: Or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Miscellaneous Litterature, 5. köide,1. number1810 - 400 pages |
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... shall find more to blame than to admire ; and discover , that the defire of advancing his fortunes , and making himself a name , were , from his outfet in life , the only objects he had in view . The good of his country , and the ...
... shall find more to blame than to admire ; and discover , that the defire of advancing his fortunes , and making himself a name , were , from his outfet in life , the only objects he had in view . The good of his country , and the ...
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... shall be fhuffled . Thus fup- pose the cards are to be firft placed in the order as here- after follows , and then fhuffled by taking off 3 from the top , putting the next 2 over them , and the following 3 under them † , and fo ...
... shall be fhuffled . Thus fup- pose the cards are to be firft placed in the order as here- after follows , and then fhuffled by taking off 3 from the top , putting the next 2 over them , and the following 3 under them † , and fo ...
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... shall be much obliged to you , as reading alone engages my attention it prefent , if you will lend me any one of the eight volumes of the Spectator . I hope you will excufe is freedom ; but for a winter's evening I don't know a better ...
... shall be much obliged to you , as reading alone engages my attention it prefent , if you will lend me any one of the eight volumes of the Spectator . I hope you will excufe is freedom ; but for a winter's evening I don't know a better ...
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... shall ever ap- pear againft it , 1753 , 8vo . - 7 . A Journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai , and back again , tranflated from a Manufcript written by the Prefetto of E- gypt , in Company with fome Miffionaries de propa- ganda fide at ...
... shall ever ap- pear againft it , 1753 , 8vo . - 7 . A Journal from Grand Cairo to Mount Sinai , and back again , tranflated from a Manufcript written by the Prefetto of E- gypt , in Company with fome Miffionaries de propa- ganda fide at ...
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... shall be content with preferving that of the Lacedemonians only , amongst whom the bafe and ungenerous pleasure of revenge is never put in compe- tition with that of fhowing clemency and moderation › to their enemies , efpecially after ...
... shall be content with preferving that of the Lacedemonians only , amongst whom the bafe and ungenerous pleasure of revenge is never put in compe- tition with that of fhowing clemency and moderation › to their enemies , efpecially after ...
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