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... future Happiness , Man , that is the top of this lower Creation , would be the most miserable part of it , and we should have reafon to en- vy the Happiness of the pretty Birds , that fit merrily finging on the Trees ; and to wish that ...
... future Happiness , Man , that is the top of this lower Creation , would be the most miserable part of it , and we should have reafon to en- vy the Happiness of the pretty Birds , that fit merrily finging on the Trees ; and to wish that ...
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... future , left by our Divifions or Apoftacies we return a- gain unto that Yoak of Bondage ; and fince the Emiffaries of Rome are now fo bufily pursuing their old Maxim , Divide , & Impera , and blowing the Coals of our Divifions , in ...
... future , left by our Divifions or Apoftacies we return a- gain unto that Yoak of Bondage ; and fince the Emiffaries of Rome are now fo bufily pursuing their old Maxim , Divide , & Impera , and blowing the Coals of our Divifions , in ...
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... future Ad- vantage from the prefent Calamity , but like miferable Wrecks they are abandoned to the Mercy of the Winds and Waves , and in a fearful Expe- & tation how the next Billow will dif- pose of them , whether it will dash them on ...
... future Ad- vantage from the prefent Calamity , but like miferable Wrecks they are abandoned to the Mercy of the Winds and Waves , and in a fearful Expe- & tation how the next Billow will dif- pose of them , whether it will dash them on ...
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... future things which before he never thought of . Now how must it needs daftar- dize a Souldier , if when he is going into the Battel , the near Approach of his Danger fhould awaken fuch Thoughts as these in his Mind ? I am now entring ...
... future things which before he never thought of . Now how must it needs daftar- dize a Souldier , if when he is going into the Battel , the near Approach of his Danger fhould awaken fuch Thoughts as these in his Mind ? I am now entring ...
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... future Advancement , their Lives and Fortunes are at Pawn in the Hands of their Fellow Confpirators ; who being prompted , either by Drunkenness or Vanity , or Fear or Confcience , will in all Probability one time or other betray them ...
... future Advancement , their Lives and Fortunes are at Pawn in the Hands of their Fellow Confpirators ; who being prompted , either by Drunkenness or Vanity , or Fear or Confcience , will in all Probability one time or other betray them ...
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