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From the sefsion records: it appears, that the poor were much more numerous forty years ago, than they are at present, and that their numbers have beei» gradually decreasing.
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Nothing could have induced me to undertake a t; aftt likethsB, to retface a life which has already beei too long, and which, if my ideas of it are
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My heart has beei; \ entranced with gazing on her, i44 (litANTUAH B£V£L8,
Two plays: Mantuan revels, a comedy, in five acts; Henry the Seventh, an historical tragedy, in five acts Chenevix, Richard, 1774-1830 1812
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As no accident remarkably unfortunate had befallen our adventurers, during a nayi« gation of more than thirteen hundred miles, upon a coaft every where abounding with the moft dangerous rocks and (hoals, no name expre (& ve of didrefs had hitherto beei | given to any cape or point of land which they had feen.
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But Prejudice, however vile, rules, the destiny of genius, and her most unjust decrees have sometimes beei) reversed, only by late posterity.
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It had beei) argued that from lh« nature of Qovernmental powers, the Treaty-making power must be paramount, and from tbe nature of contract it mast be paramount.
The Debates and proceedings in the Congress of the United States 1789
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