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Pork is likewife produced as another Inftance, which is an admirable one to
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Inftance of queen Elizabeth's attachment to that doftrine, v. 153, - note.
The history of England : from the invasion iof Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688 ... 1796
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Whereas the Courfc of Kature in ahnoft every Inftance ptainly prbVes the tontrary.
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On the other Hand; fometimes the Plaintiff don't appear; he is then faid to be nonfuited, and fuch Nonfuit is recorded by the AJifciate, at the Inftance of the Defendant \ and in this.
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Inftance, you fee a metalline Speculum, which I take cut of this Refleftor, and holding it in the Sun-beams they are all reflected to a Focus, at 9 Inches from the Specu - lum, as you fee mcafured by the common Foot-rule; ar. d therefore the Diameter of the concave Sphere, of vhivh this Speculum is a fmall Portion, is 4 Times 9, cr 36
The Young Gentleman and Lady's Philosophy: In a Continued Survey of the Works of Nature and Art ... 1781
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Indeed Pope is almoft inexcufable in this Inftance, as what he feems to condemn in one Place, he very much applauds in another.
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Thus, for Inftance, a Peach or a Pine*apple are in their higheft Beauty, juft at the Time that they fhould be eat.
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Neverthelefs the Reward o-iven would be an Inftance of a generous Regard in thofe who had Power to beftow of rewarding Merit, tliough they were inevitably deceived as t-o t'le proper Perfons to v/hom fuch Rev/ard fliould have been given.
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And although in this Point one Party muft have been miftaken, yet it is manifeftly a Matter of no great Confequence, and the Church at that Time was divided in their Judgment: and, it by no Means follows from this Inftance, that the Church might alfo have been miftaken in Matters of the greateft Weight, fuch as thofe of Faith and Government, elpecially when all were united in Opinion.
An appeal to the public, in behalf of the Church of England in America 1767
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And when we confider the miferablc Confe - quences that muft neceflarily follow, even from a fmgle Inftance of this Kind, and that one worth - lefs
An appeal to the public, in behalf of the Church of England in America 1767
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