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... nearly the end of the seventeenth century , and whose manuscripts , preserved in the Bodleian Library at Oxford , contain some very quaint and amusing notices of eminent persons who flourished just before and in his day , says , " Mr ...
... nearly the end of the seventeenth century , and whose manuscripts , preserved in the Bodleian Library at Oxford , contain some very quaint and amusing notices of eminent persons who flourished just before and in his day , says , " Mr ...
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... nearly every other town of England in that day , closely built , imperfectly drained , was subject to periodical visitations of the plague . From the average annual number of births and burials we may infer that the usual number of the ...
... nearly every other town of England in that day , closely built , imperfectly drained , was subject to periodical visitations of the plague . From the average annual number of births and burials we may infer that the usual number of the ...
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... nearly resembles a capital A , and was per- haps chosen in honour of the lady whom he had married . " He farther says , " Out of nineteen persons who signed a paper relative to one of their body who had been elected bailiff , ten of ...
... nearly resembles a capital A , and was per- haps chosen in honour of the lady whom he had married . " He farther says , " Out of nineteen persons who signed a paper relative to one of their body who had been elected bailiff , ten of ...
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... nearly fourteen centuries ; and the only naval power of Italy became extinct . During the several months that the negotiations for the peace lasted , Bonaparte had time to effect other changes in Italy . He began with Genoa . That ...
... nearly fourteen centuries ; and the only naval power of Italy became extinct . During the several months that the negotiations for the peace lasted , Bonaparte had time to effect other changes in Italy . He began with Genoa . That ...
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... nearly equal in numbers , 120,000 each . After a dreadful slaughter on both sides , the Russian general sounded a retreat , and the French were left in possession of the bloody field ; but the French took hardly any prisoners or guns ...
... nearly equal in numbers , 120,000 each . After a dreadful slaughter on both sides , the Russian general sounded a retreat , and the French were left in possession of the bloody field ; but the French took hardly any prisoners or guns ...
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