Walker's Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining KnowledgeR. Gibson, 1786 |
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... houfe where h fat , with the British fecretary at his fide o the treafury bench , manfully declare in ex plicit terms , that English laws did not ɓing Ireland . The doctrine , though true at al times , was then new , and particularly ...
... houfe where h fat , with the British fecretary at his fide o the treafury bench , manfully declare in ex plicit terms , that English laws did not ɓing Ireland . The doctrine , though true at al times , was then new , and particularly ...
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... houfe of Doctor Diachylon --- " No cure no pay , " in the front --- Both Harlequins try to get in . Lack cures a lame man by a touch of his dagger of lath --- takes the crutches-- . Imps to the door , and of course is admitted . Clack ...
... houfe of Doctor Diachylon --- " No cure no pay , " in the front --- Both Harlequins try to get in . Lack cures a lame man by a touch of his dagger of lath --- takes the crutches-- . Imps to the door , and of course is admitted . Clack ...
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... houfe in Leith as a tavern , furnished it fuitably , laid in a flock of liquors , and given charge of them to Helen Nimmo as houfe - keeper . Mrs. Macleod having occafion last harvest to be a confiderable time absent from her own house ...
... houfe in Leith as a tavern , furnished it fuitably , laid in a flock of liquors , and given charge of them to Helen Nimmo as houfe - keeper . Mrs. Macleod having occafion last harvest to be a confiderable time absent from her own house ...
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... houfe . He there found Mr. Henderson , Mr. Macleod , Gibfon , his wife , and two daughters . Henderson was then writing a paper , which the deponent faw him fub- feribe ; Gibson figned as witness to the deed , and defired the deponent ...
... houfe . He there found Mr. Henderson , Mr. Macleod , Gibfon , his wife , and two daughters . Henderson was then writing a paper , which the deponent faw him fub- feribe ; Gibson figned as witness to the deed , and defired the deponent ...
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... houfe , either that or any other time . Depofed , he thought the man that came into Mrs. Ma- cleod's houfe had on a dark coloured wig . Captain Neil Macleod deposed , that he had a fervant , one David Household , a lad about feventeen ...
... houfe , either that or any other time . Depofed , he thought the man that came into Mrs. Ma- cleod's houfe had on a dark coloured wig . Captain Neil Macleod deposed , that he had a fervant , one David Household , a lad about feventeen ...
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