The British Magazine, Or, Monthly Repository for Gentlemen & LadiesJames Rivington & James Fletcher ... & H. Payne, 1762 |
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... prefent the happy victims with the richest cloaths , jewels , and ornaments ; that they might make a noble appearance at the folemnity , and in the other world . Chriftianity hath long fince abolished fo inhuman a custom . The drunken ...
... prefent the happy victims with the richest cloaths , jewels , and ornaments ; that they might make a noble appearance at the folemnity , and in the other world . Chriftianity hath long fince abolished fo inhuman a custom . The drunken ...
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... prefent age . When Alexander , whofe fame had no other limits but thofe of the then known world , wept that he had no other left to conquer , must he not , in the eyes of a philofopher , appear as lit- tle as the child building a card ...
... prefent age . When Alexander , whofe fame had no other limits but thofe of the then known world , wept that he had no other left to conquer , must he not , in the eyes of a philofopher , appear as lit- tle as the child building a card ...
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... prefent war by fea and land , in the Atlantic , Mediterranean , in the German and Indian oceans , in Old France , New France , North Ame- rica , the Leeward Iflands , Germany , Africa , and Afia , we may fairly ftate the lofs of men ...
... prefent war by fea and land , in the Atlantic , Mediterranean , in the German and Indian oceans , in Old France , New France , North Ame- rica , the Leeward Iflands , Germany , Africa , and Afia , we may fairly ftate the lofs of men ...
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... prefent war fhall be ended : that al- though his Catholic majefty might have had reafon to think himself offended by the irregular manner in which the me- morial was returned to M. de Buffy , mini- fter of France , which he had ...
... prefent war fhall be ended : that al- though his Catholic majefty might have had reafon to think himself offended by the irregular manner in which the me- morial was returned to M. de Buffy , mini- fter of France , which he had ...
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... prefent war , or to depart , in any manner , from the neutrality they had hitherto observed ; and to make that minister sensible , that , if they perfifted in refusing all fatisfaction on demands fo juft , fo neceffary , and fo ...
... prefent war , or to depart , in any manner , from the neutrality they had hitherto observed ; and to make that minister sensible , that , if they perfifted in refusing all fatisfaction on demands fo juft , fo neceffary , and fo ...
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