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Pains of Woman's Labour upon her at Church; and some part of the Waters being already voided, she acquainted the People about her, that she fear'd she should be Deliver'd in the Church.
Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites Giles Jacob
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-- Supposing, however, that your order Should be for twenty Capitals, half Corinthian & the remainder Ionic. -- they could be Deliver'd here, in five months, from the receipt of your order to procure the freight to the U: States from hence, of marble-works in Cases, & which I have frequently Sent, will Cost -- Sixteen dollars, the ten measure of 40 Cubic feet.
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I had clos'd my letter of the 15th. & waiting Dayly the Departure of Mr. Fletcher, when your letter of the 3d. of Septr. from poplar forest, has been Deliver'd me; through what avenues it has pass'd in this period of time, I Cannot Say, I only perceive, it last pass'd through Germany.
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-- A few Days Since, I receiv'd letters from the two Raggi's, expressing their great Contentment at their reception at Monticello; all their letters have been Deliver'd at Carrara. -- a vessel Sailing in the course of the Day, Affords me only a few moments, from other unavoidable avocations, especially as our Como.
Letters to and from Jefferson, 1819 [a machine-readable transcription] 1819
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That she hath a Right to a fifth of the Personall Estate and ought [to] be Serv'd in point of Choice is what I have Deliver'd as my Opinion before this Day; tho 'Seem'd to be Doubted by some Others.
Letter from Robert Carter to the trustees of Ralph Wormeley's estate, 1702 April 6 1702
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But above all, it is an excellent Remedy, and very useful to a sort of People, who are always Travelling in Thought, but never Deliver'd into Action; who are so exceeding busy at Thinking, they have no leisure for Action; of whom the late Poet sung well to the purpose;
The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon Daniel Defoe 1696
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Authors, upon whose credit they relate it; For, by this means they would secure themselves from the suspition of falshood (to which the other Practice Exposes them) and they would Leave the Reader to Judge of what is fit for him to Believe of what is Deliver'd, whilst they employ not their own great names to Countenance doubtfull Relations; and they will also do Justice to the Inventors or Publishers of true
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Chymists; _ [1] _or lastly, shall write against them in a canting way; I mean, shall express himself in ambiguous or obscure termes, or argue from experiments not intelligibly enough Deliver'd_, Carneades
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Wherefore what I shall now advance in favour of what I have lately Deliver'd shall be Deduc'd from Experiments made Divers Years since.
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I was favor'd with yours by Captain Pascal Smith, who also Deliver'd to me, the Picture you were kind enough to Send me by him; it came Safe and undamag'd from the Voyage hither.
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