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... Land Revenue of . See ST . JOHN . CROWN Lands , Manors , Tene- ments , & c . held by Leafe , Ac- count of , 413 Woods , Forefts , & c . Report of the Commif- fioners of Inquiry concerning , 414 CUMBERLAND'S Defcriptive Ca- talogue of ...
... Land Revenue of . See ST . JOHN . CROWN Lands , Manors , Tene- ments , & c . held by Leafe , Ac- count of , 413 Woods , Forefts , & c . Report of the Commif- fioners of Inquiry concerning , 414 CUMBERLAND'S Defcriptive Ca- talogue of ...
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... land , Additions to , ROHILLA Afgans , Origin , & c . of , ROMANCE of real Life , ROMAN Catholics , controverfial Publications relative to , 75 , 395 328 414 , 417 ROWLES's Letters to Priestley , 419 153 RUSH's Enquiry concerning pub ...
... land , Additions to , ROHILLA Afgans , Origin , & c . of , ROMANCE of real Life , ROMAN Catholics , controverfial Publications relative to , 75 , 395 328 414 , 417 ROWLES's Letters to Priestley , 419 153 RUSH's Enquiry concerning pub ...
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... land ) he maintains to be a monument of the primitive manners of the human race . That the firft vocal founds were expreffions of paffion , varied according to the nature of the paffion , our Author thus attempts to prove from the ...
... land ) he maintains to be a monument of the primitive manners of the human race . That the firft vocal founds were expreffions of paffion , varied according to the nature of the paffion , our Author thus attempts to prove from the ...
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... land . The word dag , in ftrict propriety of fpeech , fignifies that fpecies of food which is produced from the culture of the ground , or from ploughed land . It will readily fuggeft it- felf to the learned , that the combined words of ...
... land . The word dag , in ftrict propriety of fpeech , fignifies that fpecies of food which is produced from the culture of the ground , or from ploughed land . It will readily fuggeft it- felf to the learned , that the combined words of ...
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... land , alfo crop of corn . AT fignifies bread . In Glic , a crop of corn , and bread , are expreffed by Arbhar , commonly pronounced Arar and Aran ; all being equally derivatives of the root Ar . So the Greek and Latin words , Agror ...
... land , alfo crop of corn . AT fignifies bread . In Glic , a crop of corn , and bread , are expreffed by Arbhar , commonly pronounced Arar and Aran ; all being equally derivatives of the root Ar . So the Greek and Latin words , Agror ...
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Page 416 - Oh ! while along the stream of Time thy name Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame, Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale...
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Page 191 - Sweet maid, if thou wouldst charm my sight, And bid these arms thy neck infold ; That rosy cheek, that lily hand Would give thy poet more delight Than all Bocara's vaunted gold, Than all the gems of Samarcund.
Page 440 - ... thereunto, borrowed even from the praises which are proper to virtue itself. As of a most notorious thief, and wicked outlaw...
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Page 441 - ... that the day was his night, and the night his day; that he loved not to be long wooing of wenches to yield to him, but where he came he took by force the...
Page 211 - Verse varied with pauses and accents, in modern languages, — they are all equally removed from nature, and equally a violation of common speech. When this artificial mode has been established as the vehicle of sentiment, there is another principle in the human mind, to which the work must be referred, which still renders it more artificial, carries it still further from common nature, and deviates only to render it more perfect. That...
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