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The height of the coloured water in the tube of glafs meafures the adlive quantity of the prcfTure of the atmofphere, which is exerted on the furface of the water to increafe the ex - penditure.
A Journal of natural philosophy, chemistry, and the arts .. 1797
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Panduif, who wasreftored to his legate - fhip, was adlive in fupprefling this rebellion; and with the concurrence of eleven bifhops, he pro - nounced the fentence of excommunication againft Albemarle and his adherents f: An army was le - vied: A fcutage of ten millings, a knight's fee, was impofed on all the military tenants: Albemarle's aiTociates gradually deferted him: And he himfelf was obliged at laft to fue for mercv.
The history of England : from the invasion iof Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688 ... 1796
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Still another clafs remains, compofed of men. who become the adlive inftruments of bad ambition in others, while their own objeft extends no farther than immediate gratifica - tion.
Thoughts on the public duties of private life : with reference to present circumstances and opinions Macdonald, Thomas 1795
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TO purfue worthy ends by wife means is the whole of adlive prudence.
The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, a Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for ... 1794
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Images thus became gods; and ina - mmate blocks the supposed adlive essences of divinity.
A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps 1794
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Addref - fes were likewiTe pfefented by Parliament to the Lord Lieutenant expreffive of their thanks for the adlive part he had taken in this interefting bufinefs.
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The leaders of the early Mahomedans, being adlive and intrepid warriors, at the head of a hardy race of men, whom they had infpired with fanatic courage, like a torrent bore down all who attempted to oppofe them, and in an aftoniihingly fhort fpace of time carried their dominion and their faith into every quarter of the then known world.
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Nor to deaf winds and waves our fruitlefs plaint Pour weak; the country claims our adlive aid;
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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Though in his political creed he ever conformed himfelf to the party prevailing in the beginning of that Diet, as having been that of his father; yet he never took any adlive part in, their operations.
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This adlive iniquity is never at reft; whether I have to do with God or man, it befets me on every fide, it breaks the commands of the firft table, as well as the fecond, detrafts from tlie honour that I owe to my Maker, and the charity due to my fellow ercatirres.
THOUGHTS IN PROSE AND VERSE ON NATURAL, MORAL, AND DIVINE SUBJECTS 1789
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