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from The Century Dictionary.
- To boil down.
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We believe eve - ry charafter what we know it to be; and if peo - ple lived, (o that no body would believe their upbraiders, Icandal would die away, and we fhould forget the name; '• but we find that the moft worthlefs are generally the moft tenacious of what they do not deferve, which is a good name and charatter.
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They, however, deferve to be applauded for this aft of juflice; for if they had not. given their immediate affiflance, it would hardly have been in his power to have recovered the mufquet by any gentle means whatever; and by making ufe of any other, he was fure to lofe more than ten times its value.
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Paffing by*nany of thofe things which have amufed by thejir ingenuity, or furprifed b£ their novelty, but which do hot deferve a ferious anfwer, I will endeavor to ftate diftinfctly the grounds taken by the oppo - nents of this bill, or rather the opponents of furnifhing the means of profecutmg the war: — Firftly.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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Thofe who are guilty of it, deferve to be hunted out of foci - ety, and deprived of all its ardvantagos.
Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments,: Tending to Amuse ... 1797
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After the firft pu - blication, many cavils, for they cannot deferve a better name, were thrown out refpediing the reality of the ex - iftence of the work in the Galic language.
The poems of Ossian, the son of Fingal. Ossian, 3rd cent 1796
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But this is an event too remote to deferve any confide ration at prefent.
An historical, geographical, commercial, and philosophical view of the United States of America, and of the European settlements in America and the West-Indies Winterbotham, William, 1763-1829. cn 1796
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Though it feems to deferve, that it lliould be received on thefe accounts, before any compcfition of the kind, its national profession depends wholly on the autho - rity of the parliament, and of the prince.
A review of ecclesiastical establishments in Europe : containing their history ... : and an essay tending to shew both the political and moral necessity of abolishing exclusive establishments, with answers to some principal objections Whatman, James, 1741-1798 1796
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Jn con - tradidion to Dr. Gregory, who, after having gone through the drudgery of perufing all the moft celebrated of tne French preachers, aiferts that, except a fermon or two by Mafliilon, there arc fcarcely any of them which deferve to be compared with the Englifh preachers, or even to be read at all, and imputes to them great itcorredoeft of tafle, and poverty of matter; Mr. Gardiner afctibes to tkca fub -
The Monthly Review 1796
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- But one of them will per - haps even to thee appear to deferve an exception, when I inform thee, that it was nothing lefs than a little adventure with the only daughter of the emperor, the young Fauftina, who at that time had been a few years married to Marcus Aurelius, his adopted fon, but was flUl in the full bloom of youth and beauty»
Private history of Peregrinus Proteus, the philosopher Wieland, Christoph Martin, 1733-1813 1796
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The advances which learning hath made, fmce the fixteenth century, deferve to be firft confidered,
A review of ecclesiastical establishments in Europe : containing their history ... : and an essay tending to shew both the political and moral necessity of abolishing exclusive establishments, with answers to some principal objections Whatman, James, 1741-1798 1796
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