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D.afting of the article: K.M. D.nn, M.D. Sullivan, M.Von Korff.
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D.afting of the article: K.M. D.nn, M.D. Sullivan, M.Von Korff.
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By afting thus he recovered his IkiflF; but he did not deem it prudent to ftop any. longer after fuch ads of hoftility.
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That Watchmen and Patroles in the Metropolis ihould be tinder the controul of Magidrates, afting within the divifion.
A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the Various Crimes and ... Patrick Colquhoun 1797
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Thefe reli - gionifts could not be engaged to commit that crime from policy, in order to deter other magiftrates from afting againft them.
The history of England : from the invasion iof Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688 ... 1796
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And while he was again afting the part of a guardian, Amphion and Zethus coUeaing toge - ther an army, invaded the country; and thbfe who wcrfc careful left the race of Cadmus fliould become extinft, fcr cretly conveyed Laius away.
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And whatever is the produftion and fruit of a vicious heart, or will, afting from unreafonable and bad motives, and for a #rong and forbidden end, is not duty, but fin, whether it be in words or a£lions, or whatever it may be; and whatever be the appearance of it in the iight of men, who cannot fee the heart.
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Or where it was in part rgeftcd, who can fay to what extent the worihip paid by the Antediluvian race was infpired; or how far the patriarchal religion, fubfequent of that event, was in conformity to exprefs command; or how far devotion was the confequence of reafon, afting upon the explanations of almighty power that had then been vouch* fafed to the world?
A sermon [on 1 Cor. i, 21] preached at the triennial visitation of the lord bishop of Hereford Joseph Corbett 1792
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There arc cades of rob - bers and thieves, who confider themfelves afting in their proper profeflion, and having united their families, train their children to it.
Observations on the state of society Grant, Charles 1792
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