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This is the firft in - flance of God's particular favor to Abraham, which we find mentioned in facred hiftory.
Twenty four sermons on various useful subjects Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 1797
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Whe - ther, fuppofing the corporate body confided of twelve, and two were dead, there was any in - flance (where the charter has faid that the elec - tion fliall be by the majority of the body) in!
Reports of the proceedings before select committees of the House of commons 1793
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DEDICATION. the like again; yet, the example only holds in Heroic Poetry: in Tragedy and Satyr, I offer myfelf to main - tain againft fome of our modern critics, that this age and the laft, particularly in England, have excelled the ancients in both thofe kinds; and, I would in - flance in Shakefpeare of the former, of your Lordfnip in the latter fort.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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The depontiohi of thj four fiflerj of Mar - tin Guerre, and their great refemblance jo the prilbner, waj a ftrong circuro - flance in hij favour.
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When moored, the extremes of the ifland bore N.E. by N. and E. by S our di - flance fiom the ftiore being two miles.
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That a jury fliould be com - pofed of men moft fufficient, and leaft fufpicioui, muft be always a circum - flance anxioufly to be defired s that it fliould be compored of men of thS 'vicinity is oftan a circumftance to be as anxicufly avcided.
An answer to the Declaration of the American Congress [microform] 1776
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Hut it is very evideui, that thefe authors have not fuflficiently examined the t'ubjeCt; for as, in many vegetables, fome flowers are turnillied with ttamina only, and otheis only with piltill. i, it is altogether im - pofliblc, that ftamina (ituated at fo very great a di - flance from the fruit as on a different brunch, or per - haps on a feparate plant, fhould ferve 10 couvty any impurities from the embryo.
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The extenfion of the land of Egypt northward, the d*i - flance between it and Cyprus, and the fituation of Canopus, all (hew, that no or veny little alteration has been made thefe 3000 years.
Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 1790
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HE Sun or Scar's Amplitude is the £)] flance of tht Rifing or Setting of the Sun or Star from the Eall or Weil Point of the Horizon, in Degrees and Minutes, reclconedin the Horizon either Nortberly or Southerly.
The Mariner's Compass Rectified: Containing Tables, Shewing the True Hour of the Day ... With ... 1780
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He himfelf, in due feafon, was to have been the leader of the revolt; and if the fcheme fucceeded, Mary, (privy tQ e\*ery circum - flance) was to be proclaimed queen both of Eng - land and Scotland, and then, as a reward for this great fervice, (he was to marry him.
A new history of Scotland, from the earliest accounts to the present time 1770
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