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Hence fays the apoftle, "He who hath wrought us, for the felf fame thing is God, who hath alfo given us the earneft of the fpirit;" that is, the firft fruits of the heavenly Canaan.
Twenty four sermons on various useful subjects Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 1797
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I have a thing to fuppofe — a thing to de - clare — a thing to conceal — a thing to choofe, and a thing to pray for This chapter, there - fore, I name the chapter of things — and my next chapter to it, that is, the firft chapter of my next volume, if I live, fhall be my chapter upon
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Or have my various fcenes a purpofe known Which freedom, virtue, glory, might not own i Such from the firft was my dramatic plan;
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To the Miniiters poffi - bly*; and if fo, it ought to be a warning to the Houfe, that it mould not, by acting like. the Miniiters, lofe the proper, that is, the firft opportunity, and thereby throw ex -
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The Venetians feldom inhabit the firft, which is often entirely filled with lumber.
the flowers of modern travels rev. john adams, a . m. 1792
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The fituation of thefe two fatellites is between that which has hitherto been always called the firft fatellite, and the boJy of the planet; and confequent -
The Monthly Review 1791
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Take a man in a violent pafEon, or a man that never has been in one; but the firft is the beit.
Criticisms on the Rolliad. Part the first French Laurence , Joseph Richardson , Richard Tickell 1791
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The firft was the Stambouline, or Conftantinople peek, exactly 23 1 inches; the fecond, the Hendaizy, of i\-J - inches; and the third the peek El JBelledy, jq?
Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 1790
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Let me then, for the fake of diftinftion, be permitted to call the firft sense, and the latter GENIUS.
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The fatire is divided into three parts: the firft is the exordium to Micri - nus, which the poet confines within the compafs of four verfes.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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