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... late revolutions at court , have given room to fome fpecious objections , which I have heard repeated by well - meaning men , just as they had taken them up on the credit of others , who have worfe defigns . They wonder , the QUEEN ...
... late revolutions at court , have given room to fome fpecious objections , which I have heard repeated by well - meaning men , just as they had taken them up on the credit of others , who have worfe defigns . They wonder , the QUEEN ...
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... late ) will at last prevail . NUMBER XV . Thursday , November 16 , 1720 . -medioque ut limite curras , Icare , ait , moneo : ne fi demiffior ibis , Unda gravet pennas ; fi celfior , ignis adurat . -My boy , take care To wing thy courfe ...
... late ) will at last prevail . NUMBER XV . Thursday , November 16 , 1720 . -medioque ut limite curras , Icare , ait , moneo : ne fi demiffior ibis , Unda gravet pennas ; fi celfior , ignis adurat . -My boy , take care To wing thy courfe ...
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... the future . I was told , that the paper called The Obfervator , was twice filled laft week with re- marks upon a late Examiner . These I read with the the first opportunity , and , to speak in the 20 N ° 15 . THE EXAMINER .
... the future . I was told , that the paper called The Obfervator , was twice filled laft week with re- marks upon a late Examiner . These I read with the the first opportunity , and , to speak in the 20 N ° 15 . THE EXAMINER .
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... late miniftry , How they came to be Whigs ? and by what figure of fpeech , half a dozen others , lately put into great employments , can be called Tories ? I doubt , whoever would fuit the defini- tion to the perfons , muft make it ...
... late miniftry , How they came to be Whigs ? and by what figure of fpeech , half a dozen others , lately put into great employments , can be called Tories ? I doubt , whoever would fuit the defini- tion to the perfons , muft make it ...
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... late king and queen her fifter is not that an hereditary right ? What need we explain it any farther I have known an article of faith ex- pounded in much loofer and more general terms , and that , by an author , whofe opinions are very ...
... late king and queen her fifter is not that an hereditary right ? What need we explain it any farther I have known an article of faith ex- pounded in much loofer and more general terms , and that , by an author , whofe opinions are very ...
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