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... tion , he vifited every scene , and tried every variety of many - coloured life . The verfatility of his tafte was unlimited ; and , as he was formed to en- gage in no purfuit with apathy , or even with mo- deration , he fhewed the fame ...
... tion , he vifited every scene , and tried every variety of many - coloured life . The verfatility of his tafte was unlimited ; and , as he was formed to en- gage in no purfuit with apathy , or even with mo- deration , he fhewed the fame ...
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... tion of the country , wished to augment their ftrength , by fizing a portion of the executive power , and a patronage fo valuable as would foon have enabled them to purchase popular fupport . Though oppofed in parliament , as a breach ...
... tion of the country , wished to augment their ftrength , by fizing a portion of the executive power , and a patronage fo valuable as would foon have enabled them to purchase popular fupport . Though oppofed in parliament , as a breach ...
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... tion before he honoured it with his encomiums . Had he candidly confidered whether the concur- rence of the upper claifes ( fo far as it was given ) was not compulfory , and whether fuch of them as really aided , " and believed ...
... tion before he honoured it with his encomiums . Had he candidly confidered whether the concur- rence of the upper claifes ( fo far as it was given ) was not compulfory , and whether fuch of them as really aided , " and believed ...
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... tion , he believed that disposition to exist ; and that he was feverely disappointed , in the last hours of his life . to difcover the infincerity and infidioufnefs of their pacific profeffions ; the impoffibility , which he had fo ...
... tion , he believed that disposition to exist ; and that he was feverely disappointed , in the last hours of his life . to difcover the infincerity and infidioufnefs of their pacific profeffions ; the impoffibility , which he had fo ...
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... tion excited the greatest indignation . His do- cers fay , he retired into Spain , and thence into minions were publicly invaded and conquered by Alca . In 60 Crotaire became monarch of France . Sigebert and Gontran ; after which they ...
... tion excited the greatest indignation . His do- cers fay , he retired into Spain , and thence into minions were publicly invaded and conquered by Alca . In 60 Crotaire became monarch of France . Sigebert and Gontran ; after which they ...
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Page 198 - ... the hole G. For if we then hold it up to the wind as before, a quantity of water will be blown out ; and if both legs of the instrument are of the same bore, the height of the column sustained will be equal to double the column of water in either leg, or the sum of what is wanting in both legs. But if the legs are of unequal bores, neither of these will give the true height of the column of water which the wind sustained.