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... Such traitors as Cataline and others fhould for the publick fafety be re- moved . Servilius Ahala ferved the commonwealth by removing Spu- rius Melius . And Scipio Nalica faved it from utter ruin by the death of Tiberius Gracchus . But ...
... Such traitors as Cataline and others fhould for the publick fafety be re- moved . Servilius Ahala ferved the commonwealth by removing Spu- rius Melius . And Scipio Nalica faved it from utter ruin by the death of Tiberius Gracchus . But ...
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... such infolent and wicked practices . And we beg leave , at the fame time , humbly to affure your Majesty , that thefe fentiments proceed , not only from thofe principles of duty , by which we are bound as fubjects , but from the moft ...
... such infolent and wicked practices . And we beg leave , at the fame time , humbly to affure your Majesty , that thefe fentiments proceed , not only from thofe principles of duty , by which we are bound as fubjects , but from the moft ...
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... Such are the Forks of most of our poets , and of be beft writers ancient and modern ; ve may form a judgment of it by the icellaneous learning of a Voltaire , ad'Alembert , & c . No one can be ignorant , that great works have been ...
... Such are the Forks of most of our poets , and of be beft writers ancient and modern ; ve may form a judgment of it by the icellaneous learning of a Voltaire , ad'Alembert , & c . No one can be ignorant , that great works have been ...
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... Such tricks and fanc es he could do , As much furpris'd the canine crew . Like modern juggiers , round the town , His bilis were pofed up and down , Just come from Italy or France , A dog that can take fnuff , and dance , Read , write ...
... Such tricks and fanc es he could do , As much furpris'd the canine crew . Like modern juggiers , round the town , His bilis were pofed up and down , Just come from Italy or France , A dog that can take fnuff , and dance , Read , write ...
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... Such ladies as defire to dance minueis at St. James's to morrow night , at the ball on ac ount of the marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Augufta with his moft Serene Highness the hereditary Prince of Brunfwick , are requented ...
... Such ladies as defire to dance minueis at St. James's to morrow night , at the ball on ac ount of the marriage of her Royal Highness the Princess Augufta with his moft Serene Highness the hereditary Prince of Brunfwick , are requented ...
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