The Adventures of a Bank-note ...T. Davies, 1771 |
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Page 16
... going to " the dining - room , runs to stop him , crying , " Pray , Sir , don't go into the dining - room , there is a madman " in it . " The captain , seeing it was his coufin , nimbly advanced , and , fhaking his stick at the footman ...
... going to " the dining - room , runs to stop him , crying , " Pray , Sir , don't go into the dining - room , there is a madman " in it . " The captain , seeing it was his coufin , nimbly advanced , and , fhaking his stick at the footman ...
Page 17
... going to ring , to know " what was the matter , when the ho- " neft captain_told him it was all his " own doing . " Which way , for " God's fake , " fays his kinfman ; " I " can hardly tell myself , " fays the 66 captain : " I have been ...
... going to ring , to know " what was the matter , when the ho- " neft captain_told him it was all his " own doing . " Which way , for " God's fake , " fays his kinfman ; " I " can hardly tell myself , " fays the 66 captain : " I have been ...
Page 24
... going , " and not only bring up all my bilge- " water , but fend my pluck over- " board , through the fcupper - holes , " This was heathen Greek to coufin Lovely ; fo fhe bottled it up , to get an explanation from her husband ; and only ...
... going , " and not only bring up all my bilge- " water , but fend my pluck over- " board , through the fcupper - holes , " This was heathen Greek to coufin Lovely ; fo fhe bottled it up , to get an explanation from her husband ; and only ...
Page 40
... going " forward from the weft to the east . ' Thirdly , there was his retrogade " motion , when he went back ten degrees , upon good king Hezeki- " ah's account . And , Secondly , and laftly , there was the motion men- tioned in my text ...
... going " forward from the weft to the east . ' Thirdly , there was his retrogade " motion , when he went back ten degrees , upon good king Hezeki- " ah's account . And , Secondly , and laftly , there was the motion men- tioned in my text ...
Page 88
... going to return for his shoes , but fearing the enemy might have fome of the scholars of Archimedes amongst them , who , by levers , or pa- tent - fcrews , might remove the cover , he boldly ventured barefoot into the cellar , 1 cellar ...
... going to return for his shoes , but fearing the enemy might have fome of the scholars of Archimedes amongst them , who , by levers , or pa- tent - fcrews , might remove the cover , he boldly ventured barefoot into the cellar , 1 cellar ...
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