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What bothered him most was his own cofl fusion over what to do with the girl.
Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000
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Unlefe they yield him this profit, therefore, they do not repay him what they may very properly be faid to have really cofl him.
The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812
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We received a bahar (four hundred and ten pounds) for a few yards of ribband, and a hundred pounds weight for a few fmall chains, of brais, which only cofl a marcel * • jAnd as every failor was anxious to carry to Spain as much as he could, every one bar*. rtered his property for cloves.
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This farm had cofl him two thoufand pounds; and he aflured me, that, allowing nothing for feme loifes occaiioned by his ignorance of the country, of the language on his fird arrival, and Ijor the iroprotements he had made, bis land pro - duces more than the ititereft of his money.
Historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries, from the time of ... 1797
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Betv/ccn the fhores of iHc harbour, the docks, and the town, there is a mofl excellent ficce of meadow, inclofcd and manured with fuch cofl and pains u Incw how ncccfifary and prec'ous grafs is at Nantucket.
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Granting even that no acfua/or urgent evil arifes from the corrupt ftate of the pretended Reprefentation of the People — Granting that it has not within the laft eight vears cofl; us thirteen Colonies, a hundred thoufand lives, and the ac - cumulation of a hundred and fifty millions of debt — Making all thefe concefTions, what argu - ment do they furnilh to you?
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Many and many a million thofe wittlcifms cofl; the nation, whilfl: thofe of the facetious Joe are fold in pennyworths in folio.
A letter from Common Sense, addressed to the King and people Common Sense 1791
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* This, it muft be owned, is a fuccinli way of ending the cofl -
The Monthly Review 1791
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In plantations, however, newly in - clofed, one flill meets with large trunks, which l6 TOUR ROUND THE WORLD, which cofl the planter much labour to root out and clear them away.
Travels round the world, in the years 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771 Pierre Marie François 1791
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C00 feet to the farmer was equal to the firft, minus the ex - pence and trouble it cofl him for watering it by labour; for this, then, he paid one half of the rent only to the land - lord.
Travels to discover the source of the Nile, in the years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773 1790
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