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The firft ftep in the procefs of cry flat lizat ion is the tormation of grains, the fecond is the increafe in onedimenfion, the third in two dimenfions, and the fourth in three dimenfions; the grains thcm - fclves, however, to be vifible, muft receive ac - cretions in the three dimenfions.
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As the ground rifes to the eaft, in what may be called the fecond region, the foil is o£
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The fecond was a ram and impolitic remedy againft public bankruptcy; to increafe national credit they increafed na - tional property, but by the means they took of doing fo, they have fhaken the whole fa - brick of property to its foundation.
A new friend on an old subject Hervey, Frederic 1791
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The firft volume is divided into four different parts; the firft of which contains, in ten letters, what may be called, pro - perly, the author's journey to Sicily, The fecond is a trans - lation of Dolomieu's difTertation on an extinft volcano, in that part of Sicily which is called Val di Noto.
The Monthly Review 1791
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In a commercial light, the firft of thefe iflands was of the higheft importance; its cotton was the beft in the Weft Indies; the fecond was a ftation of which the ufefulnefs in war was continually manifefted while in our pofleffion.
History of the war with America, France, Spain, and Holland : commencing in 1775 and ending in 1783 1785
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Abimelech, the fon of Abimelech, and therefore called the fecond of that name, fucceeded his father in the king - dom of the Philiftines, reigned alfo at Gerar, had almoft the fame. tranfaciions with Ifaac as his father had with Abraham, and feems to have been aduated by the very fame principles as his father, and to have well deferved to be ftyled a juft and pious prince.
An universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time 1779
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The fecond is the moft encumbered with notes, becaufe the principles it contains being chiefly controvertible, required the fupport of a greater accumulation of proof.
A treatise on man, his intellectual faculties and his education 1777
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You fay reflexion cannot make us feel, tho 'it may make us aA as if we did, which is extremely juft; therefore I did not make refledion the caufe of this feeling, but habit; which, I faid, Aeals fo imperceptibly Upon us, that we miftake it for nature; and it is fo near it, that it is called a fecond nature.
A series of genuine letters between Henry and Frances [by R. and E. Griffith]. 1767
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Manichecs framed Chntt a body of aire, bycaufe Chnfl is called the fecond Adam, heauenly of heauen.
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* • tution, and that the fecond is the work of one or
Strictures on the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Ireland:: From the Most Ancient Times ... 1789
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