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... never fight in the field . The priests , who are called evanga , are next in rank to the king ; and after them is the tambocado , or chief juftice , before whom the manis are obliged to lay their reports for further inveftigation ...
... never fight in the field . The priests , who are called evanga , are next in rank to the king ; and after them is the tambocado , or chief juftice , before whom the manis are obliged to lay their reports for further inveftigation ...
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... never allowed to pursue his journey alone , but is always accompanied either to fome other village , or to a fpot ... never receive any arbitrary commands from him . Notwithstanding that he has far more warriors in his own country , yet ...
... never allowed to pursue his journey alone , but is always accompanied either to fome other village , or to a fpot ... never receive any arbitrary commands from him . Notwithstanding that he has far more warriors in his own country , yet ...
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... never would be any peals or claps of thunder which would not be accom- panied with rain . I have also heard Hafenfratz lecture on machines . " The object of those lectures ought to be whatever relates to machinery , practical mechanics ...
... never would be any peals or claps of thunder which would not be accom- panied with rain . I have also heard Hafenfratz lecture on machines . " The object of those lectures ought to be whatever relates to machinery , practical mechanics ...
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... never exhibited to the public . Here I had a fecond view of fome fingular objects , which I had feen at the Hague one and twenty years before , in the Stadtholder's collection , fuch as the fea - horse , zebra , elephant , orang - ou ...
... never exhibited to the public . Here I had a fecond view of fome fingular objects , which I had feen at the Hague one and twenty years before , in the Stadtholder's collection , fuch as the fea - horse , zebra , elephant , orang - ou ...
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... never be fufficiently honoured , and that the profperity of a ftate depended chiefly on the encouragement they received . Charles the Wife laid the foundation of the prefent national library . The first ftock confifted of twenty volumes ...
... never be fufficiently honoured , and that the profperity of a ftate depended chiefly on the encouragement they received . Charles the Wife laid the foundation of the prefent national library . The first ftock confifted of twenty volumes ...
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