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WENHOEK has a ihort infcription, in Latin almoft as bad as that of a verfe epitaph upon C Grjotius Digitized by Google
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But Ufus Quem penes arbitrium eft, et jus et noi'ma loquendi. and Diyden, Pope, &c. often ufe ivo-ve as a participle in place of the harfh - founding - woven, a word almoft incompatible with the elegance of verfifica - tion.
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And by fuch titles almoft all the do* minions of the earth are holdcn, except that their original is beyond memory, and greater obfcurity gives them greater veneration.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets 1787
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The Rambarde, a fright - ful chain of reefs, occupies almoft the whole fpace which divides thefe iflands fronj thofe pf the archipelago St. Peter, leaving however an excellent paflage between them and its fouthem extremity.
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We faw a high peaked hill at the north end: but the land on the eaft fide is low ail along; for we cruifed almoft the length of it.
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India Stock tafeem an almoft folitary exception to this general praftice, particularly when they advert to the difpofition which has, at all tunes, been evinced by them, cheerfully and voluntarily, to come forward for the fervice of the State, even when their own immediate interelfs have thereby been placed at flake.
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An ap - prentice is likely to be idle, and almoft always 1 is fo, becaufe he has no immediate intereft to be otherwife.
The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812
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It has little to fear from enemies, bang as it were fortified by luiture, and almoft every where inacceflible, on account of its fteep fliores.
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In conftrufting the canal * the wild palm was ufed (palma brava): the wood of this tree h hollow, hard, tough, and very durable in water: it is likewke ufed for making the gutters which furround the houfes, and conduct the rain water into the ciitems, with Strhich almoft every houfe in Manila is provided.
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His comrade, who had objeded to coming on board the fliip, feeing him return, ran to advife his comrades, who perceiving that our armed men advanced towards them, ranged themfelves in file without arms, and almoft naked: they immediately began dancing and finging, in the courfe of which they raifed the fore-finger to heaven, to make us comprehend that it was thence they reckoned Us to have defcended.
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