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  • In this book, which he entitled Miscellanies, in two volumes, first appeared the second part of Sketches or Essays on Various Subjects, by Launcelot Temple, Esq.

    Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846

  • He says nothing more, except that he will send a duplicate of the bill by next packet; and that 'the Miscellanies is published in two volumes,

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

  • Clement of Alexandria in Miscellanies [3.2.11] quotes Jude 8, 17 as Scripture, in The Instructor [3.8.44], Jude 5.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • But there is a personal charm in the character he has assumed in his periodical Miscellanies, which is felt with such a gentle force, that we scarce advert to it.

    Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Isaac Disraeli 1807

  • The Miscellanies are a pretty good way to get your feet wet, because they give you a sense of what people are talking about at the moment, but you don't have to be an expert -- all you have to do is understand it well enough to send people there with a link.

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  • The Miscellanies are a pretty good way to get your feet wet, because they give you a sense of what people are talking about at the moment, but you don't have to be an expert -- all you have to do is understand it well enough to send people there with a link.

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  • Marvell, and printed in the 'Miscellanies' of the Spalding

    Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" J. L. Cherry

  • John Aubrey, in his "Miscellanies," asserts, on the authority of certain

    Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

  • John Aubrey, in his "Miscellanies," relates that a certain physician, Dr. R.chard Nepier, a person of great piety, whose knees were horny with much praying, was wont to ask professional advice of this archangel, and that his prescriptions began with the abbreviation "R. R.s." for _R.sponsum R.phælis_, R.phael's answer.

    Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

  • "Miscellanies" fixes it as of 1770, and at London.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 Various

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