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She wifhed to enrich her treafury by the tributes which Burope would pay; and Europe has not only freed itfelf from, h r unjuft pretenfions, but alfo from the tributes it would have paid her induftry; her manufafturing towns are become de - fert -.; diftrefs has fucceeded a profperity hitherto increaftng; an alarming difappeP. rance of money, and the abfolute want of em - ployment;.
Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Admiralty; commencing with the judgments of the Right Hon. Sir William Scott, Easter term 1808 [-1812] Edwards, Thomas, 1775?-1845, reporter 1812
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The DAMPIX&'s ACCOUNT OF THE PRIL1PPINE8. ij The Sultan is abfolute in his power over all his fubje£ts.
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He is married to an Indian woman, a native of the ifland of Timor, and he lives in the fame manner as the inhabitants of Savu, whofe language he fpeaks better than any other; like them too he fits on the ground and chews betle, and has fo perfedly adopted their manners, that he is an abfolute Indian, except in drefs and complexion.
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Loo, this A& fpeak* eth onelie of Exemptions, which is a thing abfolute: and that onely of Honfes ezempte, and of their Jorifdiftions.
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This would be a labour of difficult eflfeduation, as well from the generaDy hard and rocky nature of the foil, as from an abfolute want of every requifite inftru« ment for the purpofe.
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Hufbands and wives, parents and children, lived to - gether in the fame wigwams, without any different apartment, and made no great privacy of fuch a6tions as the chafter animals keep from open view The Indian government generally was abfolute mon - archy.
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Having been fepa rated from Ruilia by an imraenfe dif-* taace for four years, he was in the moft abfolute ignorance of all the events whrth had changed the face of the empire.
Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries,: From the Time of ... 1797
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Whatever may - be the bulk of the body, this lofs of weight is the weight of an equal bulk of the fluid; and we obtain the fpecilic gravity of the body by fimply dividing its whole weight by the weight loft: the quotient is the fpecific gravity when this fluid is taken for the ftandard, even though we fhould not know the abfolute weight of any given bulk of this ftandard.
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The fachems were fo abfolute in their government, that they contemned the limited authority of the Englifli governors.
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In procefs of time, merely by the moft wondertui addrefs, they acquired an abfolute domi - nion, both fpiritual and temporal, over the natives.
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