A Bill to Enable John Dickins, of Leaton in the County of Stafford, Esq; to Charge the Mannor of Preene ... with Four Thousand Pounds ...

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Page 184 - I myself am able yet to do, is only to recommend to mankind the search of that felicity, which you instruct them how to find and to enjoy.
Page 125 - ... to be in company ; the one has but part of the affairs of one nation, the other all the works of God and nature under his consideration. There is no saying shocks me so much as that which I hear very often, " that a man does not know how to pass his time.
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