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On one fide it has four charaders of the great King of China* This money is called pici t* In our commerce with the Borneans for a cathil of quickfilver, they gave us fix china bowls* The cathil weighs two pounds |.
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His prediledion for Tarkifti charaders and manners was extreme.
Historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries, from the time of ... 1797
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Ca ting the charaders of thy and fliouldft de - '.
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* Nor was it fcldom ihat the charaders of the fcholaryand of the man of rank, were united in the fame pcrfcn.
The Monthly Review 1796
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Notwithftandino; the obvious diftindion between thefe focieties, the original projedlors of the milcel - laneous fyftem, not attending to the incompatibility of their refpeftive charaders, muft have admitted the principle of an antecedent polTibility of mixture, before they could have entertained the thought, that it was in their power to accompliih it.
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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HIS is a lake, of which little has been men - tioned, perhaps becaufe it is inferiour in fize to the others, but which is diftinguiflied by the fo - lemn grandeur of Jts rocks and mountains, that rife in very bold and awful charaders.
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The fame year, he produced Tde Hifery and Fall of Caius Marius, in which the charaders of young Marius and Lavinia are borrowed from the Romeo and Juliet of Shakfpeare.
The works of the British poets : with prefaces, biographical and critical 1795
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Adions, looks, words, fleps, form the alphabet by Avhich you may ipell charaders: forae are mere let - ters, fome contain entire words, lines, whole pages, which at once decypher the life of a man.
Aphorisms on man Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825 1794
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'The only proper perfons, therefore, to choofe for inti - mate friends, are men of a. ferious turn; for fucU are generally prudent, and fit to confult with; and of eftabliflied charaders; for fuch, having fomewhat to lofe, will be cautious of their behaviour.
The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, a Brief Account of the Certain and Established Means for ... 1794
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Druids, but, the sacred characters of the Car - thaginian, Phoeniciah, and Egyptian priests, if not of all the Heathen priests of antiquity; for Herodotus assures us, that the Greeks and lo - oians wrote in charaders composed entirely of right
A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps 1794
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