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Whei their Curiofity was fatisEed, they hired a Urge failing boat P P 2 for
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Curiofity muft there - fore firft be excited in the Indians before their attention tq any doftrine can be engaged, and when their attention is fixed, fuch things ihould only be propofed to them as their pre - fent ftate will admit of their receiving.
Three Tracts Respecting the Conversion and Instruction of the Free Indians ... 1789
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As you put fo good a Glofs upon the Mat* ter, you have excited my Curiofity to fee a few Experi - ments at this Time, though I cannot help thinking, after all you have faid, they will lock like Puerilities, or Enter - tainments fit for Boys and Girls only.
The Young Gentleman and Lady's Philosophy: In a Continued Survey of the Works of Nature and Art ... 1781
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But for my own Part, when I want to fatisfy my Curiofity with a View of the folar Spots, lie.
The Young Gentleman and Lady's Philosophy: In a Continued Survey of the Works of Nature and Art ... 1781
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Curiofity incited him to follow the pious philofopher; and, unperceived by Hiero, he placed himfdf behind the ftump of a - tree, fufficiently near, to mark his words and geftures.
A father's instructions; moral tales, fables, and reflections 1781
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They who have not feen it, have it in their Power to purchafe the Instrument at a fmall Price, and to try the Experiments withoatany Trouble; but they who have not Curiofity enough to do this, are defervedly excluded from participating in thofe Pleafaret, which are the mod exquifite that Nature affords, aad place os at the greater* Diftance from the Brute Creation*
The Young Gentleman and Lady's Philosophy: In a Continued Survey of the Works of Nature and Art ... 1781
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The natural and indelible Partiality of Mankind for thofe Spots, to which they bear a more immediate Relation by Birth, or other fortuitous Circumftauccs, and rcfpetllng which the moft lively Curiofity is an Inevi - table Confequence, gives, it muft be allowed,
The History of Cheshire: Containing King's Vale-royal Entire 1778
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This we agreed to palm upon the World for a pofthumous Piece di Mr. Prior, However, a certain Lady, celebrated for certain Liberties, had a Curiofity to fee the real Author.
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To teach all this is-theDefign of the Commercial Di&ionary, which though immediately and prima - rily written for the Merchants, will be of Ufe to every Man of Bufinefs or Curiofity.
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Thefe, nume - rous as they are, might be multiplied, but that TJfc and Curiofity are here fatisfied and the Frame of our Language, and Modes of our Combination, amply difcovcred.
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