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In a decaying ma -, nufa&are, on the contrary, many workmen, ra - ther than quit their old trade, are contented with fmaller wages than would otherwife be fuitable to the nature of their employments The profits of ftoGk vary with the price of the commodities in which it is employed.
The Works of Adam Smith ...: With an Account of His Life and Writings 1812
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An air of me - lancholy and lilence reigns on all fides, peculiarly chara£tcriflic of, and fuitable to, the gloomy devo« tion of monaftic life.
Historical account of the most celebrated voyages, travels, and discoveries, from the time of ... 1797
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Among the Gauls, the hufband received a portion in money with his wife, for which he made her a fuitable fettlement of his goods.
Icelandic poetry 1797
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The ■ minifter was then addrelFed in a fuitable manner by the Ttprefentative Leftevenoa*
A Collection of State Papers Relative to the War Against France Now Carrying on by Great Britain ... 1797
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It is lefs fuitable to the earthly designs of political gcvernment.
A review of ecclesiastical establishments in Europe : containing their history ... : and an essay tending to shew both the political and moral necessity of abolishing exclusive establishments, with answers to some principal objections Whatman, James, 1741-1798 1796
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The victorious Sigebert now thought of forming a matrimonial connection, fuitable to his birth and dignity; with this view he fixed his eyes on Brunehaut, daughter of Athanagildus, king of the Vifigoths, who pafTed for the moft ac - complifhed princefs of the age.
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The foul of man is fpiritual in its nature, and therefore carnal and corporeal objefts cannot be a fuitable good for it.
Life in God's favour, the substance of sundry sermons upon Psalm, 30. 5 1796
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The ancient enmity between thefe princes broke out anew in bravadoes, and in per - fonal infults on each other, ill becoming perfons of their rank, and ftill lefs fuitable to men of fuch un - queftioned bravery.
The history of England : from the invasion iof Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688 ... 1796
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But the favour of God, the enjoy - ment of infinite excellence, is a fuitable good for it.
Life in God's favour, the substance of sundry sermons upon Psalm, 30. 5 1796
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Their proceedings indeed were only confiftent with abfo - lute monarchy; but v/ere entirely fuitable to the genius of the aft on which they were ejftabliflied; an aft that at once gave the crown alone all the power which had formerly been claimed by the popes, but which even thefe ufurping prelates had never been able fully to exercife, without fome concurrence of the national clergy.
The history of England : from the invasion iof Julius Cæsar to the revolution in 1688 ... 1796
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