Arithmetical questions, on a new plan: a suppl. to Introduction to arithmetic1795 |
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... said , fays Pliny , that divine expreffion , Pætus , it is not painful . Martial has celebrated this heroic action in the following famous epigram : " When from her breaft chafte Arria fnatch'd the fword , And gave the deathful weapon ...
... said , fays Pliny , that divine expreffion , Pætus , it is not painful . Martial has celebrated this heroic action in the following famous epigram : " When from her breaft chafte Arria fnatch'd the fword , And gave the deathful weapon ...
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... said he , “ I die happy . " So faying , the hero expired in the 34th year of his age . 66 " Short was his date , but deathlefs his renown . " A death more glorious , and attended with circumftances more pic- turefque and interefting ...
... said he , “ I die happy . " So faying , the hero expired in the 34th year of his age . 66 " Short was his date , but deathlefs his renown . " A death more glorious , and attended with circumftances more pic- turefque and interefting ...
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... said , to fee the common foldiers , who had spent their strength in our fervice , reduced to beg * ; " and to this edifice he contributed £ 13,000 . About two thousand old difabled feamen are maintained in Green- wich Hofpital ; but ...
... said , to fee the common foldiers , who had spent their strength in our fervice , reduced to beg * ; " and to this edifice he contributed £ 13,000 . About two thousand old difabled feamen are maintained in Green- wich Hofpital ; but ...
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