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At Batavia, if an officer take one of thefe amoks* or mohawks as they have heen called by an eafy corruption, alive hii reward is very confiderable, but if he kill them nothing is added to his ufual pay; yet fuch is the fury ot their dcfperation, that three out of four are of necefiity deflroyed in tne attempt to fecure them.
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And to fpeak my thoughts freely, I believe it is owing to tne negled: of this eafy way that all that vaft trad of Terra Auftralis which bounds the South Sea is yet undifcovered: thofe that crofs that fea feeming to defign fome bufinefs on the Peruvian or Mexican coaft, and fo leaving that at a diftance.
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Still, fpite of fo many \m* favourable circumftances, the geographical part of our labours are not the lefs interefting; and it will no doubt be eafy forme to prove, by the narrative of our operations of this defcription, how much they do honour to the French navy.
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An excellent level beach allows of eafy accefs to the ifland, and the fliore is indented by fmall coves pretty fecure for boats and veflels of light burthen.
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When they retired to reft, in the evening, they appeared perfedly eafy in their minds, and flept very quietly.
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I cannot help remarking upon this part of Captain Tafman's journal, that it is notr eafy to conceive, unlefs he was bound up by his inftrudtons, why he did not remain fome time either at Rotterdam or at Amfterdam ifland, but efpecially at the former '; fince, perhaps, there is not a place in the world fo happily feated, for making new dif - coveries with eafe and fafety.
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When an adjectire was to be conneAed with a noun that denoted an objeA devoid of Sex; it is not always eafy to guefs what views might have determined the fpeaker to ufe the adjeAive in one gender rather than in the other.
Elements of Gaelic Grammar ... Alexander Stewart 1812
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Id be offered and proclamations iffued* inviting the fubje£ls of a foreign power to treafon and rebellion* under the influences of a quarter of the country* upon which a retort of the fame na - ture was fo obvious* fo eafy* and in its confeqiiences fo awful; in every afpeft, the defign feemed fo fraught With danger and difgrace, that it appeared abfolutely impoffible, that it fhould be feriously entertained.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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If the treaty is ratifi - ed and a perfeft good underftanding is produced by it between the two countries, it will be eafy for their governments, by frietul - ly communications, to ftate to each other what they rtlpe&ive - ly de fire, and in that mode to arrange the bufinefs as latisfattori - ly as it could be done by treaty. 5 '
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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Though it is not eafy to perceive what purpofo fuch additional proof is to anfwer, either for obtaining juftice 01 for fliewing why it is refufed, yet I herewith fend you a few cafes in addition to vvhathave already been furniihed.
Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Admiralty; commencing with the judgments of the Right Hon. Sir William Scott, Easter term 1808 [-1812] Edwards, Thomas, 1775?-1845, reporter 1812
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