The Craftsman, 11. köideR. Francelin, 1737 |
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... Hand , mark'd with arithmetical Numbers , and other mathematical Figures . Whilft I was furveying these odd Sages , and conjectu- ring with myself what Office They might bear in the Commonwealth , I heard a confused Noife at the Door ...
... Hand , mark'd with arithmetical Numbers , and other mathematical Figures . Whilft I was furveying these odd Sages , and conjectu- ring with myself what Office They might bear in the Commonwealth , I heard a confused Noife at the Door ...
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... Hand , which appear'd to be a Decree of the Senate . Having read this Paper aloud , the pretended Judges and their little Officers were ftruck with a fudden Confternation , and fneak'd out of the Room , one after another , with vifible ...
... Hand , which appear'd to be a Decree of the Senate . Having read this Paper aloud , the pretended Judges and their little Officers were ftruck with a fudden Confternation , and fneak'd out of the Room , one after another , with vifible ...
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... Hand into the fame Metal , which their Love of Liberty would not fuffer Them to accept in Specie at first . It will be expected , perhaps , that I fhould intirely difcard thofe ill - founding Words , STOCKS and JOBS and DEBTS ; but I am ...
... Hand into the fame Metal , which their Love of Liberty would not fuffer Them to accept in Specie at first . It will be expected , perhaps , that I fhould intirely difcard thofe ill - founding Words , STOCKS and JOBS and DEBTS ; but I am ...
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... Hands ; but when that fatal Hour arrives , as one Day it muft , I hope fomebody will do the honourable Gentleman that last Office ; and , perhaps , with more Juftice to his Cha- racter than now , when He is in full Poffeffion of Power ...
... Hands ; but when that fatal Hour arrives , as one Day it muft , I hope fomebody will do the honourable Gentleman that last Office ; and , perhaps , with more Juftice to his Cha- racter than now , when He is in full Poffeffion of Power ...
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... folicit à Petition , which was finish'd and agreed to late that Evening ; and as there are but two Ways of getting Hands to a Petition , viz . calling People People together , or fending it to their Honfes ; 34 The CRAFTSMAN , N ° 359 .
... folicit à Petition , which was finish'd and agreed to late that Evening ; and as there are but two Ways of getting Hands to a Petition , viz . calling People People together , or fending it to their Honfes ; 34 The CRAFTSMAN , N ° 359 .
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