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... employing foreigners to cut and dress it ; or when they employ natives , obliging them to work on the Lord's Day , to the neg- lect of their duty to God , & c . They therefore hum- bly beseeched his majesty , that he would be pleased to ...
... employing foreigners to cut and dress it ; or when they employ natives , obliging them to work on the Lord's Day , to the neg- lect of their duty to God , & c . They therefore hum- bly beseeched his majesty , that he would be pleased to ...
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... employed , as in duty bound , at court , it being a levee day . A buffoon lord in waiting ( you may guess who I mean ) was very busy in marshalling the circle ; he said to me , ' Move forward , you clog up the door . ' I replied with as ...
... employed , as in duty bound , at court , it being a levee day . A buffoon lord in waiting ( you may guess who I mean ) was very busy in marshalling the circle ; he said to me , ' Move forward , you clog up the door . ' I replied with as ...
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... employ it in any other way they might think fit . " THE PRETENDER . The Duke of Gloucester , father of the present duke , when abroad , in 1771 , for the recovery of his health , frequently saw the Pretender in public . One of his ...
... employ it in any other way they might think fit . " THE PRETENDER . The Duke of Gloucester , father of the present duke , when abroad , in 1771 , for the recovery of his health , frequently saw the Pretender in public . One of his ...
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... employed ; and when he saw him , told him to be a steady lad , and " Georgy " might do some good for bim . MR . HARTLEY'S EXPERIMENTS . In the year 1776 , the public attention was attracted to an invention for the security of buildings ...
... employed ; and when he saw him , told him to be a steady lad , and " Georgy " might do some good for bim . MR . HARTLEY'S EXPERIMENTS . In the year 1776 , the public attention was attracted to an invention for the security of buildings ...
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... employ the force entrusted to him for the suppression of those acts of felony and treason , which had overborne all civil authority , and threatened the immediate sub- version of all legal power , the destruction of all pro- perty , and ...
... employ the force entrusted to him for the suppression of those acts of felony and treason , which had overborne all civil authority , and threatened the immediate sub- version of all legal power , the destruction of all pro- perty , and ...
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