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... feven perfons , great and fmall , fubfifting upon 364 1. for the year ; fo that , after receiving the chari- iv , ninety - feven perfons were fiill com- pelled to live upon fomewhat lefs than twenty fhillings per day ! When we confider ...
... feven perfons , great and fmall , fubfifting upon 364 1. for the year ; fo that , after receiving the chari- iv , ninety - feven perfons were fiill com- pelled to live upon fomewhat lefs than twenty fhillings per day ! When we confider ...
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... feven , I think , were fent to him , two of which were given to the Royal Society . When this fifh was fent to London , it was faid to have no English name , but was termed in Latin , Cobitis Tania . Berkenhout , in his Synopfis ( edit ...
... feven , I think , were fent to him , two of which were given to the Royal Society . When this fifh was fent to London , it was faid to have no English name , but was termed in Latin , Cobitis Tania . Berkenhout , in his Synopfis ( edit ...
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... feven or eight towers ri- fing above each other , narrowing in proportion to the height ; had a pyra- iidal appearance , and is called by Strabo , xvi . Пugz Tεpayamos . Eve- ry Indian pagoda on both fides of the Ganges is of a ...
... feven or eight towers ri- fing above each other , narrowing in proportion to the height ; had a pyra- iidal appearance , and is called by Strabo , xvi . Пugz Tεpayamos . Eve- ry Indian pagoda on both fides of the Ganges is of a ...
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... feven years to Captain Byrne , of his Majefty's , who was his fecond . This is the first punishment of the kind under the New Court of Judicature . In Botany Bay , the reftlefs genius of In- fubordination has la ely manifefted itfelf ...
... feven years to Captain Byrne , of his Majefty's , who was his fecond . This is the first punishment of the kind under the New Court of Judicature . In Botany Bay , the reftlefs genius of In- fubordination has la ely manifefted itfelf ...
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... feven years war , for which he received : a fmall pension from the French Govern ment , which he retained till the French Revolution , Ha ing obtained permiffion to : go to Ireland , he gladly exchanged the fil thy habiliments of a ...
... feven years war , for which he received : a fmall pension from the French Govern ment , which he retained till the French Revolution , Ha ing obtained permiffion to : go to Ireland , he gladly exchanged the fil thy habiliments of a ...
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