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When this anger abates, they fuppofe that every thing is reflored to its natural order»
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It is abfiu'd and unrcafonable to fuppofe, that the Eafl India Company, out of tbtir own revenues, can long maintain a contefl againll: the power of France, aided by the greater part of Europe and a large portion ot Afia.
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Let us raise a fufficient army to ferve during the war, be it long or fhort It is abfurd to fuppofe wc fliall not iuccetd in our enterprise Againft the enemy's province$.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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But furely after tbe orders in council were repealed, and the only avowed Object of the non-importation act. obtained, an American merchant might very rnnoceritly fuppofe that he did not by purchasing Englifh goods, do anaCt that had any tendency whatever to counteract thevieysof his own government.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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And in cafe that he would fay, that he doth not ikomo the miniflracion of the Prefte, thenne muft he nedes bo veraye ignoraunt, to fuppofe in any wyfe, that the Prefte worketh any thing in this, or any other Sacramente, more thenne as I have before fayde.
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They fuppofe that the Deity will accept of the little finger, as a fort of facrifice efficacious enough to procure the recovery of their health.
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So that nowe I fuppofe thorowgh this meanes all difobe - dience and contempte of the Kings Graces A6ks and Ordi - nances in this bihalf flialbe clearly avoided in my Dioces hereafter.
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Let us fuppofe the acceleration through'O R to be uniform, and it will be found that this acceleration is at leaft five times as great as that of heavy bodies.
A Journal of natural philosophy, chemistry, and the arts .. 1797
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Let us, therefore, for the future take water for the perature to have been about 55 ot Fahrenheit's ther - ftandard, and fuppofe that, when of the ordinary tempe - mometer.
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GRATITUDE is a quality of fo bewitching a nature, that we generally look upon it as a complication of. all the virtues, and fuppofe that no man can be deftitute of any other, who is happily in poffeffion of this; yet amiable fo - ever as it is univerfally confidered, perhaps there is no excellence in the catalogue fo little ftudied, or for which in general we entertain fo unac - countable a contempt.
Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments,: Tending to Amuse ... 1797
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