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He recommends to his young friend a ft rift adherence to the inftrucUons of the rubrics, under the ngosoos notion, that any occafional omiffion in the fervice is a breach
The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an Enlarged Plan 1796
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* from this great fervice, which is the principal care of his
Precedents of proceedings in the House of commons; with observations .. 1796
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Captain Colby ftill continued in the Thames, and during the fucceeding year, we believe, was uninter - ruptedly employed in the fame kind of fervice; but the only fuccefs he appears to have been fortunate enough to experience was, - the capture of a Privateer fnow, off*
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No prher mention,, however, is made-of him while engaged in this kind of fervice, than as having captured and carried into Margate Roads, May '1759, a fmalL French prra-r
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I fhall defcribe one kind of fervice from Mr. Switzer.
The Fruit-gardener: Containing the Method of Raising Stocks, for Multiplying of Fruit-trees, by ... 1768
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Brigadier General Hull was charg - ed with this provifional fervice, having under his command a body of troops compofed of regulars and volunteers from the State of Ohio.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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Sound policy not lefs than experience, forbids a draft on them for permanent fervice.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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The fmall veffels, which are called coxrocorros and orembays *, ten or twelve of which had come to our affiftance in the night, to tow us in, had been of very little fervice; for the ilighteft puff of wind moved the fhip fafter than they could row or paddle.
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A broken rerd I An army and term of fervice, ivhich well nigh, loft the country in the rn duty of thofe who have made it and place fo much
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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The honorable gentleman ftom North Carolina, (Mr. Pearlqp) suppoles, that if Congrefs would pafs a law prohibiting the employment of B:; ifh feamen t in our fervice, upon condition of like prohibition on their part, peace vVould immediately follow.,
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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