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Examples
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Captain Cook took all poifible care to prevent the diforder being communicated to them.
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It was feveral days before the moft dangerous fymptoms of his diforder were removed; during which time Mr. Patten, the furgeon, was to him not only a fliilful phylician, but an affedionate nurfe.
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When this diforder attacks any perfon, he is carried to fome fpot at a great diftance from any houfe, where his food is conveyed to him by means of a long flick, for no one will venture very near the invalid, who is thus left to take his chance of life or death.
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Thefe are neither difpofed in a regular feries, according to their fpecific gravities, nor yet thrown together in total diforder, as if by accident or chance.
The Economy of Nature Explained and Illustrated: On the Principles of Modern Philosophy. By G ... 1798
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They imagined that, in the midft of this diforder, they fliould fave their giiilty accomplices, who had all departed at this very moment to the place where the iegiflative body had convoked the high court of juftice; they were then to have indulged themfelves in ail the horrors which Aqr had conceived in devifmg the confpiracy of Baboeuf.
A Collection of State Papers Relative to the War Against France Now Carrying on by Great Britain ... 1797
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The fmall-pox, fo fatal in the eaft, had found entrance into the prifon, and fvvept jiway almpft all the prifoners who had not had the diforder.
Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries,: From the Time of ... 1797
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The fyftem which Miniftcrs had followed in Ireland, had reduced that country to a ftate of the greateft diforder.
The Parliamentary Register: Or an Impartial Report of the Debates that Have Occured in the Two ... 1797
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I feel in myfelf nothing but diforder, perverfenefs, and rebellion.
Life in God's favour, the substance of sundry sermons upon Psalm, 30. 5 1796
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Foxes ought to be kept very clean, and have plenty of frefh water \ birds and rabbits are their beft food j h6rfe flefli might iSz On Hunting. might give them the mange, for. they are fubject to this diforder. —
Sporting Magazine 1796
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About * twenty-four of the ftiip's company had likewife been-ill of the fame diforder, and of thefe a furgeon's mate and two marines died.
An Account of the Experiment Made at the Desire of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty , on ... James Carmichael Smyth 1796
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