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  • _Lovelace's_ Description of what he calls his Tryal before Lord M-- and the Ladies; with some others equally calculated to relieve the Mind from fixing too long on mournful melancholy Ideas.

    Remarks on Clarissa (1749) Sarah Fielding 1739

  • Some time during the latter half of 1740 the whole feud between Cibber, Pope, Fielding and Ralph was reprinted in the shilling pamphlet, already referred to, entitled The Tryal of Colley Cibber.

    Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909

  • In his remarkable address -- an address that solidified the foundation for liberty of the press and free speech on this continent and was a worthy preface to the Declaration of Independence drawn some forty years later -- Hamilton said, concerning this "Tryal":

    The Tryal of William Penn and William Mead for Causing a Tumult at the Sessions Held at the Old Bailey in London the 1st, 3d, 4th, and 5th of September 1670 1898

  • But they were reprinted in a rambling production issued from “Curll’s chaste press” in 1740, and entitled the Tryal of Colley Cibber,

    Fielding 1843

  • Occurrences, we heard a Hawker cry in the Streets, The Tryal, Condemnation, and Execution, of John Mechant at Tyburn, for having barbarously murdered a Woman by whom he had a Child; and because she ask'd him for Money to maintain it, he most inhumanly stab'd her.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • He wrote an account of his trial, which was published as A Brief Narrative of the Case and Tryal of John Peter Zenger in 1736.

    History of American Women Maggiemac 2008

  • Rudiments of Falshood, in which I have made such Proficiency, that I dare challenge a Tryal of Skill with her, or any false She in Europe.

    Exilius 2008

  • To which is added, The Tryal of Ravaillac for the murder of Henry the Great, 3 vols (London: A. Millar; R. and J. Dodsley, 1756)

    Charlotte (Ramsay) Lennox (c.1729-1804) 2008

  • Occurrences, we heard a Hawker cry in the Streets, The Tryal, Condemnation, and Execution, of John Mechant at Tyburn, for having barbarously murdered a Woman by whom he had a Child; and because she ask'd him for Money to maintain it, he most inhumanly stab'd her.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Such a manner as to put my Patience and Resignation to the Tryal.

    Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 16 April 1783 1993

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