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The ftricl exaftions of his law, which contains every ingredient of the moft perfect hohnefs, and admits of no difpenfation, are but ftricl injunclions to his fubjeds to purfue that courfe which infallibly leads them to the moft confummate happinefs; and eve - ry abatement in his demands of obedience would be a licence to them to dedu6l fo much from their happinefs, and render them - felves fo far miferable with his confent.
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With whom yourfelf, myfelf, and other lords, if you think meet, this afternoon will poft To confummate this bufinefs happily.
The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare: In Six Volumes William Shakespeare , Joseph Rann 1791
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The fim - plicity of the laws that prevail in the world, the excellent difpofition of things, in order to obtain the beft ends, and the beauty that adorns the works of nature, far fuperior to any thing in art, fuggefl: his confummate wifdom.
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All his fchemes arCv, deeply laid, and Achitrophel, David's firft Coun - fellor, a man of deep cunning, and confummate policy, offered him his fervicts, and wonderfully encouraged him.
Historical and Familiar Essays, on the Scriptures of the Old Testament: By John Collier, ... In ... John Collier 1791
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Here we fee a fubftantial reafon for the depravity of man, and the admittance of moral evil in thefe circumftances feems not only compatible with the juftice of God, but one of the high - eft inftances of his confummate wifdom in ordering and difpoling all things in the bell manner their imperfed natures will admit.
The Works of Soame Jenyns ...: Including Several Pieces Never Before Published. To which are ... 1790
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* I muft except that confummate grammarian the learned author of B'lnyon Shlotno, & e, tvhich HEBREW GRAMMAR.
Lingua sacra: : in three parts. Part I. Contains a complete Hebrew grammar ... Part II. A complete Hebrew-English dictionary ... Part III. To contain all words ... used in the English tongue ... and explained in Hebrew. Levi, David, 1740-1799 1785
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While the Romaii boafted his confummate fkill in every art of empire and government, he avowed in many works of genius and tafte, his inferiority with an air of triumph.
Poetical Works 1785
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Though diftinguiflied for martial prowcfs, confummate policy and great literary abilities; though univerfally allowed to be the greateft and wifeft of monarchs j bis general charadci cannot command our efiecm; and when we rcfled on Oo the
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Mengs himfelf with all his idolatry for Rafael thinks the world hai produced artifts with which h6 cannot come into competition, and what is Angular in the opinion isi that he does not refer to the works of the Grecian fculptors, but to their painters for that perfeftion, that idea df confummate beauty, which he finds wanting in his owtt great model.
Anecdotes of eminent painters in Spain during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 1782
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That in fuch order made the work advance i At length to fuch admir'd perfe6fcion brought The finifh'd ftrufture, as it had been wrought With art tranfcendent and confummate thought -!
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