The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 7H.D. Symonds, 1799 |
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... USE OF MINISTERS , FROM BACON'S APOTHGEMS . ALCIBIADES vifiting Pericles , ftaid a while before he was admitted ; when he came in Pericles excused it , and faid , " I was ftudying how to give my account . " Alcibides replied , " If you ...
... USE OF MINISTERS , FROM BACON'S APOTHGEMS . ALCIBIADES vifiting Pericles , ftaid a while before he was admitted ; when he came in Pericles excused it , and faid , " I was ftudying how to give my account . " Alcibides replied , " If you ...
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... use , and had a confiderable influence on the manners and morals of the age . The object towards which mankind have always directed their mind , and in the acquifition of which every fyftem , both of reli- gion and philofophy , proposes ...
... use , and had a confiderable influence on the manners and morals of the age . The object towards which mankind have always directed their mind , and in the acquifition of which every fyftem , both of reli- gion and philofophy , proposes ...
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... use of oil ? Yet fafe repofe , fincerity of life , Riches of various kinds , large farms , and ease , Lowing of herds , and grots , and living lakes , Cool vallies , and fweet fleep beneath the fhades , They want not . Lawns are there ...
... use of oil ? Yet fafe repofe , fincerity of life , Riches of various kinds , large farms , and ease , Lowing of herds , and grots , and living lakes , Cool vallies , and fweet fleep beneath the fhades , They want not . Lawns are there ...
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... use the language of thofe with whom I affociate . I have often had the misfortune to be difgufted with perfons whofe good will I had earnestly fought . I never loft but one friend through any mifunder- tanding ; C 2 ftanding ; and I ...
... use the language of thofe with whom I affociate . I have often had the misfortune to be difgufted with perfons whofe good will I had earnestly fought . I never loft but one friend through any mifunder- tanding ; C 2 ftanding ; and I ...
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... use of the mortier . The cap was the head drefs of the clergy and graduates . Pafquin fays , that it was anciently a part of the hood worn by the people of the robe , the skirts whereof being cut off as an incumbrance , left the round ...
... use of the mortier . The cap was the head drefs of the clergy and graduates . Pafquin fays , that it was anciently a part of the hood worn by the people of the robe , the skirts whereof being cut off as an incumbrance , left the round ...
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