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Or, Universal Museum. The CEN S R. And are these things so I be- lieve no fober , confiderate , unpreju- diced perfon , will deny the charge , The next thing then to be confidered is , what remedies may be adminiftered to prevent the ...
Or, Universal Museum. The CEN S R. And are these things so I be- lieve no fober , confiderate , unpreju- diced perfon , will deny the charge , The next thing then to be confidered is , what remedies may be adminiftered to prevent the ...
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... thing , vow fecrecy every where , and keep no- thing to themselves . However , I had complied with the modifh rules of good breeding and decorum - and was now fit to fee and be seen . Yet after all , extravagance in drefs , is a vice ...
... thing , vow fecrecy every where , and keep no- thing to themselves . However , I had complied with the modifh rules of good breeding and decorum - and was now fit to fee and be seen . Yet after all , extravagance in drefs , is a vice ...
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... thing hitherto offered to the public ; it is built upon a more permanent foundation , and ufhered into the world with greater credit and reputation , as it is countenanced by Sir Richard Glyn , Buc- net , who is the prefident . I fhall ...
... thing hitherto offered to the public ; it is built upon a more permanent foundation , and ufhered into the world with greater credit and reputation , as it is countenanced by Sir Richard Glyn , Buc- net , who is the prefident . I fhall ...
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... thing , Sir , I am charmed at our re - union ; I have long pleaded your caufe too well , to give it up at prefent .--- Well my dear Lucinda what is your determination ? Are you like the Marquis ? Are you faithful to your first ...
... thing , Sir , I am charmed at our re - union ; I have long pleaded your caufe too well , to give it up at prefent .--- Well my dear Lucinda what is your determination ? Are you like the Marquis ? Are you faithful to your first ...
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... thing of any value about him but a cafe of inftruments , from whence it is conjec- tured , he is a furgeon . Wednesday Jan. 9. At the election of the sixteen Peers of Scotland , on Wed- nefday laft , in the room of the late Duke of ...
... thing of any value about him but a cafe of inftruments , from whence it is conjec- tured , he is a furgeon . Wednesday Jan. 9. At the election of the sixteen Peers of Scotland , on Wed- nefday laft , in the room of the late Duke of ...
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