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'Provence,' he says (ib. 148), 'is the only province in which you see with some sort of frequency the rustic assemblies roused up to cheerfulness by the fifre and the tambourin.'
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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'Provence,' he says (_ib_. 148), 'is the only province in which you see with some sort of frequency the rustic assemblies roused up to cheerfulness by the _fifre_ and the _tambourin_.'
Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776 James Boswell 1767
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THE liberty of bargaining in money - mat* ters, a ipecies of liberty which has never yet found an advocate, «« p. i Fixing the rate of interefl, being a coercive meafure, and an exception to the general rule in favour of the enforcement of con« trails, it lies upon the advocates of the mea - fifre to produce reafons for itj — * p. 3
Defence of usury: shewing the impolicy of the present legal restraints on the terms of pecuniary ... 1787
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