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With what delight, feated on the bank of this rivulet, did I give myfelf up to the new refleflions which fuch a combination of circumftances was calculated to occafion!
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If aggravating circumftances occur, the king gives diredions for a more fevere puniffiment; the cri - minal is then bound to a tree, and he is pricked full of ikin-deep wounds with krifles, and rubbed with fugar or molafles; the whole body is foon entirely covered with ants, and the poor wretch is not relieved by death before he has fuffered the greateft torments.
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Where all other circumftances are equal, wages are generally higher in new than in old trades.
The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812
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The perpetual prohibition of the exportation of wool, which is commonly, but very falfely, afcribed to Edward III., would, in the then circumftances of the country, have been the moll deftrufitive regulation which could well have been thought of.
The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812
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Secondly, I fhall endeavour to lhow what are the circumftances which naturally determine the rate of profit, and in what manner too thofe circumftances are affe&ed by the like variations in the ftate of the fociety.
The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812
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They fent, on their arrival, great numbers to the hofpital in very dreadful circumftances.
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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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Sir, at this time, and under thefe circumftances, we are cal - led on to augment our Handing army to the number of 55,000
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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Some trivial, or misjudged circumftances can be overlooked by the reader; they make only the difference of more or lefs; the gay, or pleaiing emotion, which he has raifed fubfifts ftill.
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Still, fpite of fo many \m* favourable circumftances, the geographical part of our labours are not the lefs interefting; and it will no doubt be eafy forme to prove, by the narrative of our operations of this defcription, how much they do honour to the French navy.
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