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The chief agreed to exchange the hog for a large axe and a nail, and to bring the beaft to the fort in Port Royal Bay.
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The people had fo little time to prepare their huts and houfes, and to ere£l fheds and Ihelters for their cattle, that the fufferings of man and beaft were extreme.
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This makes the divifion in upon the Weftern Empire, it was di - of the Empire into the ten kingdoms co - vided into much about that number 0* temporary with the rife of the beaft. kingdoms.
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And what was all that authority which the Roman pontiff boafted of for fo many ages but that which the emperors had arrogated to themfelves; had ex* ercifedwith an high hand; and had at laft, together with their feat, beftovyed on the beaft?
A review of ecclesiastical establishments in Europe : containing their history ... : and an essay tending to shew both the political and moral necessity of abolishing exclusive establishments, with answers to some principal objections Whatman, James, 1741-1798 1796
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The camel is the common beaft here, and indeed throogbout the ea pabic of extraordinary fatigue, fublifi and iti abliinence from water is mc nary.
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The various means by which colds are caught, in either man or beaft, v/e natu - rally fuppofe to be fo well underflccd, that a O 2 minute
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Thus did they with all beafts; whence a dog is never commended by them for opening, before be has discovered where the beaft lies: hence they were not in any manner curious as to the mufic of their hounds, or the compofition of their ken - nel or pack, either for deepnefs, loudness, or fweetnefs of cry, which is become a principal point in the hunting of our days.
Sporting Magazine 1796
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And where man ended, the continued veft Spread on his back the houfe and trappings of a beaft.
The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical 1795
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Till at the lafl up in the rear there came The Poets 'fcandal, and the Mufts' fhame A beaft of monftrous guife, and Libel wab his name.
The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical 1795
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The letter in the Lady's Ma - gazine about me was wrote by the noted Dr. H, who wrote the rnfpeflor, and undertakes that Magazine The people of York arc very uncharitable to fuppofeany man fo grofs a beaft as to pen fuch a charafler of himfelf.
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