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I did not make this extract as a spe - cimen of any thing very fine.
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We give one of them as a fpe* cimen: it is that which concerns oracleSy-andrelatoi to p. 260 of vol*!
The Monthly Review 1796
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We were fupplied, at lengthy with bread, butter and four wine, and did not fuffer ourfelves to confider this as any fpe« cimen of German towns, becaufe Rheinberg was not a Ration of the pod; a deluHon, the fpirit of which continued through feveral weeks, for we were always finding reafons to believe, that the wrttchednefs of prefent places and perfons was produced by fome circumftances, which would not operate in other diftrids.
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The firft fpe - cimen of it was certainly fhewn in the praifes of the Deity, and prayers to him: and as they are of natural obligation, fo they are likewife of - divine inftitution.
The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790
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Both of them were in office, both fiipported a bill v. hich ap - pointed a Regent, retrained by a Council ot Regency; and the events which are now in profped:, fhall perhaps exhibit another fpc - cimen of mai-ked degeneracy in fome of their iffiic.
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It hath all the piculiaritits which diffinguifli that fpe - cimen of compofition; and the Author, tbroughoist, difcovers the zeal of a partifftOji with all the guarded dexterity of the praSifed
The Monthly Review 1786
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Ber wick -- upon-Tweed:, Carlifle and Barnard - caftle; all which were finifhed, and a fpe - cimen printed off hefore the plate was fpoiled by an accident.
A catalogue of engravers, who have been born, or resided in England; 1782
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Oculi Ddmtni fuper cimen - tC9 ctim, proteaor pot nc criderec in Inanus Moab.
Breviarium ecclesiæ Rotomagensis Rouen diocese 1777
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The Kartalini, whom I have already mentioned, and among whom we have found a spe - cimen of an English word, call a ship or vessel, Navee.
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-- that his "sole view" was "to exhibit the present state of society in the United States," the reader of course is bound to presume that in describing classes Mr. COOPER selected from each an individual, one who should be deemed a fair spe - cimen of the whole body.
Fenimore Cooper's Libels on America and Americans. Anonymous 1840
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