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Juf - tice and truth are the common ties of fociety; and therefore, even out-laws. and robbers, M'ho break with all the world bcfides, muft keep faith and rules of equity amongft themfelves, or clfe they cannot hold together.
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For being at that inftant what it is, and nothing clfe, it is the fame, and fo muft con« tinue as long as its exiftence is continued; for fo long it wiW be the fame, and no other.
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For if fugar produce in us the ideas which wc call whitenefs and fwcetnefs, we are fure there is a power in fugar to produce thofe ideas in our minds, or clfe they could not have been produced by it.
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Let her not look out, but only bok with - in, what the will of the Lord is, and mind nothing clfe, and it will be well with her.
Letters of Isaac Penington, Written to His Relations and Friends, Now First Published from ... 1796
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Sir John - But if all the people in the world knew nothing clfe but Latin, how vC'ould tilings go then?
The Childrens' Companion: Or, Entertaining Instructor for the Youth of Both Sexes; Designed, to ... 1792
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Whatever clfe has any refemblance to birds or fifties, except fuch as they account facted, is eaten without fcruple, either boil'd orrqafl - ed.
The Monthly Review 1791
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This violent rain forced me to a new work, viz. to cut a hole thro 'my new fortiBcation, like a dnk, to let the water go oat, which wouid clfe have drowned xof cave.
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe ...: With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts ... 1790
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Reentar heaven; or clfe in fomc mild zone Direll not unvifitcd of hcav'n's fair li; | ht,
Paradise lost a poem, with a biogr. and critical account of the author [by E. Fenton]. 1789
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I fay to you in confidence, that my fufpi - cions of Arundel go to all poffible lengths: I believe he has been a traitor to me and the fe - ducer of my wife's honor: What clfe could be the purport of that fecret correfpondence, which was carried on to the very moment of Lady G. 's flight out ofEngland?
Arundel 1789
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Thar would be hard indeed; I ought not fo to judge of her; and yet how clfe can I ac - count for her difclofing it to her father, but as a peace-oflFering on her part, and a thorough renunciation of me for ever?
Arundel 1789
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