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To the forefaid inconveniences may come alfo, throng the faid flatute, this abufe following: that is to wete, if there be a mightier or a richer man, that do fue a porer man in the faid Courts; the richer man maye the fooner, by reafon that there be fo fewe Pro6lors, retain the mooft parte and bed lemed of theym.
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Sure I am they would come to us fooner by fome months by the way of Cape Home.
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Though they may be ever fo poor, they will fooner difpofe of every other part of thdr pro - perty, than fell their game-cocks.
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The chief was no fooner gone, than they made fail for Ulietea, where they intended to ftop a few days.
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After remaining in this diftrefsful ftate of anxiety for a confiderable time, dreading the advantage thd Indians would take of it, to their great joy, the boat, which had been driven away by the tide, returned; and Mr. Banks and his companions no fooner breakfafted than they departed.
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They now made figns to the boat's crew to land, on which they put the boat in; but they had no fooner done fo, than the two Indians came again to op - pofe them.
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They had no fooner anchored than they were vifited by the captain of the port and Mr. Brandt.
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The charm of the taboo was now removed; and we had no fooner left the place, than the natives ruihed in, and fearched eagerly about, in expedation of finding fomethfaig of value that we might have left behmd.
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ON the a5th of February we failed from New Zealand, and had no fooner loft fight of the land than our two young adventurers repented heartily of the ftep they had taken.
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But A - braham knew that the promife was abfolute, and he was equally certain that God was faithful; he therefore believed Godj accounting that God was able to raife him up from the dead, even from the afhes of a burnt offering; and that he would do it, fooner than his promife fhould fail.
Twenty four sermons on various useful subjects Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 1797
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