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As the treafury was quite exhaufted by fo many expenfive buildings, Herod melted down all his plate, an immenfe quantity, and fent it into Egypt to procure a fupply of Provifions and necefTaries.
Historical and Familiar Essays, on the Scriptures of the Old Testament: By John Collier, ... In ... 1791
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Provifions on the whole are reafonablc: beef being fold for fix quartos, or fome - thing under feven farthings, a pound of fix - tcen ounces; but mutton is worth fourteen quartos, or nearly four pence.
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The wicked Fox cn - jofod the CaVe and Provifions to himfelf, but cn - jojred them not tong, for the fame Shepherd palling afterwards by the Anne Hole, aad feeing the Pox there, difpatched him alfo.
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Provifions, three different cata - logues of them, iii.
Observations on Divers Passages of Scripture: ... In Books of Voyages and Travels Into the East ... 1787
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The bill to punifli the Venders of unwholefome Liquors and Provifions.
A journal of the proceedings of the Legislative Council of the state of New-Jersey .. 1777
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The Bill, intitled, 'An Ad to extend and explain the Provifions already
A journal of the proceedings of the Legislative Council of the state of New-Jersey .. 1777
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The Bill, intitled, 'An Act to extend and explain the Provifions already
A journal of the proceedings of the Legislative Council of the state of New-Jersey .. 1777
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PART I. CONSI.ERATI.NS on the Agri - culture of Great Britain, with regard to the dearth and fcarcity of Corn and Provifions, and other necefTaries, particularly the articles of daily confumption -, ihewing the caufes of thefe public calamities j their ruinous confequences in population, trade, and manufactures; with the ways of preventing thefe growing evils.
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They fay further that we our felves were a fufficient Force to have kept our Ground (at leaft) againft the French Army till the reft had com. e up to us: That v/e had a plentiful Magazeen at Treves which was ftored with all manner of Provifions the laft Wi-nter, for this very purpofe: Which made our defertion fo nguch the more unaccountable.
A letter to the author of The memorial of the state of England 1705
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T Arnhem j fortify'd it with Cannon, and all the Art that could bej furnifti'd it with the greateft care, and plenty of Provifions.
Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands. 1705
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