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... fituation , that we are able , by wife management , to give law to the ocean . The Dutch were esteemed all the last cen- tury the only match for England on the feas ; but , as a great part of their ftrength was merely artificial , it ...
... fituation , that we are able , by wife management , to give law to the ocean . The Dutch were esteemed all the last cen- tury the only match for England on the feas ; but , as a great part of their ftrength was merely artificial , it ...
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... fituation Po- land has often been in , where the right of electing a Monarch proves generally the fource of civil wars . But the Ruffians did not imitate the Poles , who make a contract with the King they elect . Though they had ...
... fituation Po- land has often been in , where the right of electing a Monarch proves generally the fource of civil wars . But the Ruffians did not imitate the Poles , who make a contract with the King they elect . Though they had ...
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... fituation of this city in these early times ; the reverend and learned Dr. Gale , Dean of York , and Mr. Salmon , having offered many argu- ments to prove that it was a Roman ftation erected in St. George's Fields , to secure their ...
... fituation of this city in these early times ; the reverend and learned Dr. Gale , Dean of York , and Mr. Salmon , having offered many argu- ments to prove that it was a Roman ftation erected in St. George's Fields , to secure their ...
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... fituation tru- ly proper for making the most important difcoveries . According to the best accounts which hif- tory gives of the world , knowledge made but a flow progrefs during the early ages . This was agreeable to the natural course ...
... fituation tru- ly proper for making the most important difcoveries . According to the best accounts which hif- tory gives of the world , knowledge made but a flow progrefs during the early ages . This was agreeable to the natural course ...
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... fituation , from the in- élemency of the season and badness of the roads ; and that his Highness's head - quarters were , on the 15th of December , at Uflar . We hear like- wife , from Warburg , that the troops that were on the Dymel ...
... fituation , from the in- élemency of the season and badness of the roads ; and that his Highness's head - quarters were , on the 15th of December , at Uflar . We hear like- wife , from Warburg , that the troops that were on the Dymel ...
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Page 343 - I cannot determine; but it is plain he had much reading at least, if they will not call it learning. Nor is it any great matter, if a man has knowledge, whether he has it from one language or from another.
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Page 167 - Albeit that Good Works, which are the fruits of Faith, and follow after Justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the severity of God's judgment; yet are they pleasing and acceptable to God in Christ, and do spring out necessarily of a true and lively Faith; insomuch that by them a lively Faith may be as evidently known as a tree discerned by the fruit.
Page 343 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent fancy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometime it was necessary he should be stopped.
Page 343 - ... mine own candour; for I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.
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