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Alfe mens caufes cannot be diligently attended by fo fewe Pro£lor8.
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It is my purpofe, faid Mr. C* to examine firft, into tjie, circumftances under which the war was declared f; fecondly, h - to the caufes for continuing it; and laftly, into, the means whih have been taken or ought to be taken to procure peace.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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The needle points exactly north only in a few places, and perhaps not conftantly in them; but in meft it declines a little to the eaft, or to the weft, whence arifes eaftera and weflem declination: when this was firft obferved, it was attributed to certain excavations or hollows in the earth, to veins of lead, ftone, and other fuch-like caufes»
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For better it were, that fome of theym fhuld lacke caufes, than caufes fhuld want theym.
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And they that be unlerned will aweye, and provide theym Livings elfewhere, whan they fee theymfelf nothing frequented with caufes.
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Their hofe were made of common cloth, which may have been one of the caufes of their dearnefs.
The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812
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He replied that his fentiments accorded perfe6lly with mine in this matter, and afcribed the delay which had taken place to the fame caufes as I have afligned.
Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Admiralty; commencing with the judgments of the Right Hon. Sir William Scott, Easter term 1808 [-1812] Edwards, Thomas, 1775?-1845, reporter 1812
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But when it was found, by repeated experiments, that this variation varied, it appeared iplainly that none of thofe caufes could take place; fince, if they had, the variation in the lame place muft always have been the fame, whereas the fad is otherwife.
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It is often poifoned, and in that cafe caufes immediate death.
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And confydering, that the Bp. of Canterbery befyde all the Courts within hys own Diocefle, kepith in London a Courte at thArches, fufficyently authorized to hier and to determine all caufes and complayntes apperteynyng to a
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