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Vincent, Heryot, and John Clarke; before Sir Francis Drake made his first voyage, or the Spanish Armada was dreamed of; before Sir John Hawkins, Captain Price, Coft, Keat or others for whom the honor of the introduction of tobacco has been claimed, drew breath -- smoking was to some extent indulged in by our forefathers and (still medicinally, of course) in this country.
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings
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Coft, Now Tummast Carolus is Latin for a beating:. this is the braveft captain I ever faw 'wounds I have a month*! nund to go with him.
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Upon this I turned out fmart in'Dreft, bit Curll of his Share, and run xut moft of the Money in printing my Works at my own Coft.
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Arms.at their own proper cutcbeooorCoatof Arms. Coft.
Glossographia Anglicana Nova: Or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words of Whatever ... 1707
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Can we applaud the Conduct of Juch a Set of Men, zs 1 have here defcrib'd; or can we think fit to Truft again any of that Sort, of whom we have to our Coft feen; that the Leaft 111 vie can lay of them, is, That Preferment, Power and Places, guide them in All they do.
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Coft, the fano was laid alidr, and ilus Kcroliiti'. ai lent to the t: our, i. il or X!
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Prejudice done either to Freight or the Company's Trade; which if they will not believe, let them experiment to their own Coft.
A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years ... 1698
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This Phanfy ran in the Father's Head, to that Degree, that he Built his Son a Houfe of Pleafure, on purpofe to keep him out of Harms Way; and fpar'd neither Art nor Coft to make it a Delicious Retreate.
Fables of Æsop, and other eminent mythologists : with morals and reflexions. 1692
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Ma I'll kifs thy lipa for fpeaki Bat do it, and I'll hang afaoi And carl thy hair, ancf fleep And teach thee pleafurcs wh Coft Promife no mpre, and troi The longer I ftay here, he li I moit go to him now, and r Go home and haften fupper We mil earoufe to his depai I will, dear hulfaand; but When thou haA poifon'd hia can Icifs me, hang i he me with fmooth lave promis'd her to.
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£. xtra£l of a tetter from Mr. Secretary Coft-ivay, to Major General Gage.
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